Connor Theodore Hansen was a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Wisconsin Supreme Court

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. He was born in Freeman, South Dakota

Freeman, South Dakota

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 and he was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and at the University of Wisconsin Law School

University of Wisconsin Law School

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. Hansen served in the FBI as a special agent during World War II

World War II

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. He served on the Eau Claire County Board from 1947-1957. In 1958, Governor Vernon Wallace Thomson

Vernon Wallace Thomson

Vernon Wallace Thomson was the 34th Governor of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1959. Vernon Thomson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He attended what is now Carroll University, in 1925, but graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in 1927, where he was a member of the Chi Phi...

 appointed Hansen judge of the Eau Claire County Court. In 1967, he was appointed by Governor Warren Knowles to the Wisconsin Supreme Court; he retired in 1980. Justice Hansen died in 1987.