Albert J. Engel, Jr.

Who was Albert J. Engel, Jr.?

Albert Joseph Engel, Jr. was an American jurist who sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1974 to 2013.

Engel was born in Lake City, Michigan, the son of U.S. Representative Albert J. Engel and Bertha Engel. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Lake City, Muskegon, and Washington, D.C. In September 1941, he attended the University of Maryland, but left in June of the next year and enrolled at the University of Michigan.

Engel left the university in February 1943, and entered the United States Army as a private in the Infantry but was transferred to the Ordnance Department. He graduated at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and went on to command his own bomb disposal unit in the European Theatre of World War II for two years, seeing action in England, France, Belgium, and Germany. He was discharged in April 1946, after attaining the rank of Captain and earning five battle stars.

After World War II, Engel returned to the University of Michigan and received a bachelor's degree in political science.