George W. Wheeler

Who was George W. Wheeler?

George Wakeman Wheeler was a lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the state of Connecticut.

Wheeler was educated at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts and at Yale and Yale Law School. He formed a partnership with his college roommate Howard J. Curtis which lasted until Wheeler was appointed to the Superior Court in 1893. He became a member of the Supreme Court in September 1910 and Chief Justice in August 1920, serving until his forced retirement upon turning 70 years of age in 1930.

Wheeler married Agnes Leonard Macy on August 24, 1919; two children of his children were alive at the time of his death.