Ernest R. Feidler was a

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and Judge Advocate General of the

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Biography

A native of

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, Ernest Reynold Feidler was born on April 15, 1910. He graduated from the

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in 1934 and shortly thereafter took a faculty position at

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. After joining the Coast Guard, Feidler served in the Mediterranean Theater and the

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. He later also served during the

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and was named as the acting Judge Advocate General of the Coast Guard. Among his other assignments was being the Coast Guard aide to U.S. Treasury Secretaries

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and George M. Humphrey. Feidler retired from the military in 1970 as the highest-ranking member of the

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. As a civilian, he was an official at the

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in a variety of other capacities. In addition, he was the Secretary and the General Consul of the

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. Feidler died on September 4, 1976 in

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. He had married Lydia Keown in 1936, and she died in 1994. The couple are buried together at

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