Teetor, Paul R., 1919-2000

Paul R. Teetor was born in 1919 in Detroit, Mich. His family moved to Poultney, Vt., when he was in his teens. He graduated from Troy Conference Academy and attended Princeton University, graduating in 1940. In 1942 he joined the Army Air Corps and was trained as a navigator. He was captured after his plane was shot down and spent 15 months as a German prisoner of war, liberated from the concentration camp in 1945. In 1947 he received his law degree from Columbia University Law School. Teetor clerked for the firm Gibson, Gibson, and Crispe in Brattleboro, Vt., prior to passing the Vermont Bar exam. He established his new practice in Middlebury, Vt., in 1947. Teetor ran for State's Attorney of Addison County in 1949, but was forced to suspend his candidacy when called into service during the Korean War. He resumed his campaign upon his return in 1950 and was State's Attorney for Addison County until he resigned his office in 1954, after having taken a position with the legal team of Shell Oil Company in Calif. He later became an anti-trust prosecutor for the Federal Trade Commission and was appointed a Federal Administrative Law judge. Teetor married Katherine Ann Schindler in 1946. They have two children, Katherine Teetor Bowen of Ann Arbor, Michigan and Paul Robert Teetor of Fairfax, Va. The Teetors maintained a summer home on Thompson's Point in Charlotte, Vt. They retired to Middlebury, Vt. Paul R. Teetor developed Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease in his final years. He died on August 21, 2000.