Eugene A. Toepel was an American

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 legislator and jurist from Wisconsin

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Born in Bangor, Wisconsin

Bangor, Wisconsin

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, Toepel graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School

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 in 1939. Toepel served in the United States Army

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 in Europe

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 during World War II

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 from 1942-1946. Toepel served in the Wisconsin State Assembly

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 from 1953 until 1957 as a Republican

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. In 1957, he resigned from the Wisconsin State Assembly, when the Governor of Wisconsin

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 Vernon Wallace Thomson

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 appointed Toepel county judge (later Wisconsin Circuit Court

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 judge) in La Crosse County, Wisconsin to fill a vacancy. Toepel served for 25 years until retiring dying in DePere, Wisconsin two days before his ninetieth birthday.