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Robert H. Kaul (August 28, 1911 – March 13, 2000) was a justice of the
Kansas Supreme Court The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of seven justices, led by Chief Justice Marla Luckert, the court supervises the legal profession, administers the judicial branch, and serves as t ...
from September 27, 1965, to September 17, 1977. Kaul was appointed to the supreme court to take the place of Clair E. Robb who had died in the post. Prior to the appointment the Wamego judge had been a district judge. He resigned from the court, and his position taken by Richard Winn Holmes. He was a Kansas state judge for 28 years, starting with 16 years as a judge for the 36th district and them 12 years on the supreme court. He was born in August 1911 near
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on a farm to German immigrants. He obtained his first degree from
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, then his law degree from the
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in 1935. He started practising law in Wamego and served as the Pottawatomie County attorney for 3 terms. He served in the Navy in
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as an 11th Naval District trial judge advocate. Kaul died aged 88 on Monday March 13, 2000 at his home in
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. He had a wife named Margaret.


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