Born in
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Keppler graduated from the
University of Wisconsin and received his law degree from the
University of Wisconsin Law School. Keppler served on the Sheboygan Common Council. In 1943, he served in the
Wisconsin State Assembly. Keppler served in the
United States Army during
World War II and the
Korean War. In 1961, Keppler began serving in the
Wisconsin State Senate. In 1979, he was elected a
Wisconsin Circuit Court judge, for
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. His political career was most notable for a 1969 speech on the Wisconsin State Senate floor in which he lamented that some public employees were making a higher salary than the governor. He asked "How about
Har Gobind Khorana? Any of you know him?" Khorana was a researcher at the
University of Wisconsin who had won the
Nobel Prize the previous year. Khorana was hired by
MIT the following year and spent the rest of his career there. Keppler was married to Bertha Keppler. They had two children, Ernest Michael Keppler and Mary Keppler (Schmidt). ==References==