Charles F. Wennerstrum

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Charles F. Wennerstrum (October 11, 1889 - June 1, 1986) was an American lawyer.

Wennerstrum was born in Cambridge, Illinois and studied at Drake University, where he graduated in law in 1914. Elected county attorney of Lucas County in 1916, he served as a lieutenant of the U.S. Army in World War I. From 1941 to 1958, he served on the Supreme Court of the U.S. state Iowa, where he was chief justice for two years. During that time, he also served as the presiding judge in the Hostages Case at the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, Germany in 1947/48, where some Generals of the German army were tried for having committed war crimes.

After retiring from the Supreme Court of Iowa, he opened a private law practice in Des Moines.

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• Charles F. Wennerstrum at the web site of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Iowa.