Michael Louis Fansler

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American judge (1883–1963)

Michael Louis Fansler (July 4, 1883 – July 26, 1963) was an American lawyer , football player, politician , and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 4, 1933, to January 1, 1945.

Biography

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Early life, education, and career

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Fansler was born in Logansport , Indiana to Michael David and Johanna Fansler (née Mulcahy). Michael David Fansler (born 1857 in Wyandotte County , Ohio ), the son of one of Logansport's early physicians , was of Scots-Irish , German , and French descent. M.D. Fansler was a prominent local lawyer, serving for most of his career as a prosecutor . Johanna "Nannie" Fansler was the daughter of an Irish immigrant.

Fansler began attending Notre Dame Law School at the University of Notre Dame (in Notre Dame, Indiana ) in 1901. He was a member of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. Known to his teammates as "Big Mike" (he was over six feet tall), he played a variety of positions during his time on the team. He graduated and was admitted to the bar in 1905.

Fansler returned to Cass County . From 1906 to 1910, he served as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of the 29th Judicial Circuit , working under prosecutor George C. Custer. From 1910 to 1914, he served as the Prosecuting Attorney of the 29th Circuit, succeeding Custer. In 1915, Fansler became a partner at the private firm of Rabb, Mahoney, Fansler & Douglass. He remained at the firm until 1932. Fansler helped to organize a liberty loan drive in Cass County during the First World War . Fansler was a Democrat .

Judicial career and later life

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Fansler became a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1933. In 1941, Fansler delivered a speech titled "Some Public Reactions to Procedural Methods" at a meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association . Fansler left the court in 1945, succeeded by Justice Oliver Starr .

Fansler chaired the Indiana Judicial Council from 1951 to 1960.

Personal life and death

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Fansler was a member of the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association . He was also a member of the Gamma Eta Gamma and an Elk . Moses Lairy , another Indiana Supreme Court Justice (1915–1921), was a friend and mentor to Fansler. Fansler wrote a letter to Governor Paul V. McNutt to thank him for leading the Democrats to a landslide victory in the 1932 elections.

In 1909, Fansler married Katherine Hall of Peru, Indiana . During the First World War, Katherine Fansler was a member of the Women's Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense , the Indiana branch of the nationwide volunteer organization that helped coordinate Americans resources and industry for the war effort.

Fansler died in Indianapolis in 1963.

References

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 Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt, "[Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices](https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/browning.pdf)
", _[Indiana Law Review](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Law_Review "Indiana Law Review")
_, Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced in [Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page](https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/justice-bios.pdf#page=74)
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 Powell, Jehu Z. (1913). [_History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled_](https://archive.org/details/historyofcasscou02powe/page/736/mode/2up)
. Lewis Publishing Company.

1. ↑ Notre Dame Scholastic Football Pages Volume 38 Issue 13 (PDF). December 17, 1904. p. 218.

 Schwarz, J.C. (1937). [_Who's who in Law, Volume 1_](https://books.google.com/books?id=iI8jAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Benjamin%22+%22Willoughby%22+%22Indiana%22+%22Vincennes%22+%22Edith+Getches%22)
. p. 297.

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