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{{short description|American lawyer, politician, and judge}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Honorable
| name = William H. Dieterich
| honorific-suffix =
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
|office = Justice of the [[Wisconsin Supreme Court]]
| term_start = January 1, 1959
| term_end = July 23, 1964
| predecessor = [[Emmert L. Wingert]]
| successor = [[Nathan Heffernan]]
| pronunciation =
|birth_name = William Herbert Dieterich
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|12|18}}
| birth_place = [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|07|23|1897|12|18}}
| death_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin
| death_cause =
| restingplace = Pleasant Hill Cemetery<br />[[Hartford, Wisconsin]]
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse = {{unbulleted list
| Kathryn Marie Block
| (died 1990)
}}
| relations =
| children = {{unbulleted list
| William H. Dieterich III
}}
| mother = Martha (Wolf) Dieterich
| father = William V. Dieterich
| relatives =
| residence =
| education =
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list
| [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
| [[Marquette University Law School]]
}}
| occupation =
| profession = lawyer, judge
| signature =
| website =

| footnotes =

|allegiance = {{flag|United States|1917}}
|branch = {{flag|United States Army}}
|serviceyears = 1917–1919
|rank =
|commands =
|unit = [[1st Battalion, 120th Field Artillery Regiment|120th Field Artillery]]
|battles = [[World War I]]
|mawards =
}}
'''William Herbert Dieterich''' (December 18, 1897 – July 23, 1964) was an attorney and jurist from [[Wisconsin]]. He was a justice of the [[Wisconsin Supreme Court]] from 1959 until his death in 1964.<ref name="WHS">{{Cite web |date=2017-08-08 |title=Dieterich, William Herbert 1897 |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS7064 |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=Wisconsin Historical Society |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
He was born at his father's farm in [[Milwaukee County, Wisconsin]].<ref name="WICourts" /> He enlisted in the [[Wisconsin National Guard]] in 1917 during [[World War I]]. He helped found the [[American Legion]].<ref name="WICourts" />

After the war was over, he went to college at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] and the [[University of Montana]] and later to law school at [[Marquette University Law School]].<ref name=WHS /> He passed his bar exam in 1923 to become a lawyer.

==Career==
He served as a trial attorney in [[Milwaukee County|Milwaukee]] and [[Washington County, Wisconsin|Washington Counties]] for 36 years.<ref name=WHS /> He lost several elections for Wisconsin's Attorney General and Wisconsin Supreme Court.<ref name="WICourts" />

Dieterich was first elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1958, when he defeated [[Emmert L. Wingert]] in 1958 to become a Justice.<ref name="WICourts" /> In 1961, he convinced the Wisconsin Legislature to employ [[law clerk]]s for the Supreme Court.<ref name="WICourts">{{Cite web |title=Wisconsin Court System - Justice William H. Dieterich |url=https://www.wicourts.gov/courts/supreme/justices/retired/dieterich.htm |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=www.wicourts.gov}}</ref>

==Personal life==
He had a son William H. Dieterich III with his wife Kathryn Block.<ref name="WICourts" /> Dieterich died on July 23, 1964.

==Electoral history==

===Wisconsin Attorney General (1948)===

{{Election box begin | title=[[1948 Wisconsin Attorney General election]]<ref name="bb1950">{{cite report| chapter-url=http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1950 |title= The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1950 |year= 1950 |editor1-last= Ohm |editor1-first= Howard F. |editor2-last= Kuehn |editor2-first= Hazel L.|chapter= Parties and elections |pages=651, 753 | accessdate= November 23, 2019}}</ref>}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| '''Primary Election, September 21, 1948'''
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Donald J. Martin
|votes = 154,128
|percentage = 36.75%
|change = }}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = William H. Dieterich
|votes = 104,187
|percentage = 24.84%
|change = }}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Thomas E. Fairchild]]
|votes = 97,435
|percentage = 23.23%
|change = }}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Frank X. Didier
|votes = 27,316
|percentage = 6.51%
|change = }}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Grover L. Broadfoot]] (incumbent)
|votes = 26,572
|percentage = 6.34%
|change = }}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Progressive Party (United States, 1948)
|candidate = Michael Essin
|votes = 6,180
|percentage = 1.47%
|change = }}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Socialist Party of America
|candidate = Anna Mae Davis
|votes = 3,606
|percentage = 0.86%
|change = }}
{{Election box total
|votes = '''419,424'''
|percentage = '''100.0%'''
|change =
}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| '''General Election, November 2, 1948'''
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Thomas E. Fairchild]]
|votes = 622,312
|percentage = 50.67%
|change = +21.96%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Donald J. Martin
|votes = 583,298
|percentage = 47.49%
|change = -22.47%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Progressive Party (United States, 1948)
|candidate = Michael Essin
|votes = 11,908
|percentage = 0.97%
|change = }}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Socialist Party of America
|candidate = Anna Mae Davis
|votes = 10,641
|percentage = 0.87%
|change = -0.46%}}
{{Election box total
|votes = '''1,228,159'''
|percentage = '''100.0%'''
|change = '''+25.88%'''
}}
{{Election box gain with party link no swing|
|winner = Democratic Party (United States)
|loser = Republican Party (United States)
}}
{{Election box end}}

===Wisconsin Supreme Court (1954, 1956, 1958)===
{{Election box begin | title=[[1954 Wisconsin Supreme Court election]]<ref>{{cite report|url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1956 |title= The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1956 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |year= 1956 |editor-last1= Toepel |editor-first1= M. G. |editor-last2= Kuehn |editor-first2= Hazel L. |chapter-url= https://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/WIBlueBks/BlueBks/WIBlueBk1956/reference/wi.wibluebk1956.i0019.pdf |chapter= Parties and Elections: The Judicial and Nonpartisan Elections |page= 757 |accessdate= June 3, 2021 }}</ref>}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| '''Nonpartisan Primary, March 9, 1954'''
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = [[Roland J. Steinle]] (incumbent)
|votes = 125,530
|percentage = 61.74
|change =
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = William H. Dieterich
|votes = 49,669
|percentage = 24.43
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Perry J. Stearns
|votes = 28,134
|percentage = 13.84
|change =
}}
{{Election box total
|votes = 203,333
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| '''General Election, April 6, 1954'''
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = [[Roland J. Steinle]] (incumbent)
|votes = 297,369
|percentage = 59.76
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = William H. Dieterich
|votes = 200,224
|percentage = 40.24
|change =
}}
{{Election box plurality
|votes = 97,145
|percentage = 19.52
|change =
}}
{{Election box total
|votes = 497,593
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=[[1956 Wisconsin Supreme Court election]]<ref name="bb1958">{{cite report|chapter-url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1958 |title= The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1958 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |chapter= Parties and elections: the judicial and nonpartisan elections |year= 1958 |editor1-last= Toepel |editor1-first= M.G. |editor2-last=Kuehn |editor2-first= Hazel L. |pages= 780–781 |accessdate= November 23, 2019 }}</ref>}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| '''Primary Election, March 6, 1956'''
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = [[Thomas E. Fairchild]]
|votes = 250,442
|percentage = 71.77
|change = }}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = William H. Dieterich
|votes = 68,288
|percentage = 19.57
|change = }}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = [[Clair Finch|Clair L. Finch]]
|votes = 30,244
|percentage = 8.67
|change = }}
{{Election box total
|votes = 348,974
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| '''General Election, April 3, 1956'''
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Thomas E. Fairchild
|votes = 574,429
|percentage = 77.59
|change = }}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = William H. Dieterich
|votes = 165,953
|percentage = 22.41
|change = }}
{{Election box total
|votes = 740,382
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=[[1958 Wisconsin Supreme Court election]]<ref name="bb1960">{{cite report|chapter-url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1960 |title= The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1960 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |chapter= Wisconsin state party platforms and elections |year= 1960 |editor1-last= Toepel |editor1-first= M.G. |editor2-last=Kuehn |editor2-first= Hazel L. |page= 701 |accessdate= November 23, 2019 }}</ref>}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| '''General Election, April 1, 1958'''
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = William H. Dieterich
|votes = 232,955
|percentage = 52.43
|change = +30.02%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = [[Emmert L. Wingert]] (incumbent)
|votes = 211,319
|percentage = 47.57
|change = }}
{{Election box total
|votes = 444,274
|percentage = 100
|change = -41.32
}}
{{Election box end}}

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

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{{s-bef|before =Otto F. Christenson }}
{{s-ttl|title = [[Wisconsin Progressive Party|Progressive]] nominee for [[Attorney General of Wisconsin]] |years= 1942, 1944 }}
{{s-aft|after = None }}
{{s-end}}
[[Category:1897 births]]
[[Category:1964 deaths]]
[[Category:Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court]]
[[Category:People from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:University of Montana alumni]]
[[Category:Marquette University Law School alumni]]
[[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century Wisconsin state court judges]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Wisconsin National Guard personnel]]
[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War I]]
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William H. Dieterich (judge) - Revision history

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