[2] For a while he was a professional baseball player,[2] joining the Tri-State League's York White Roses for the 1913 season.
[2] He enrolled as a private in the Signal Corps during World War I but did not go overseas as the armistice was signed.
[4] He was a lawyer in Neosho County and was appointed to investigate the Ronald Finney Bond Scandal.
[2] Wendell had been working as the Chanute City Attorney for a few months[6] when he was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court to fill the place vacated by the resignation of the former Chief Justice William Agnew Johnston.
[2] He declined to run for reelection in 1954, and Clair E. Robb, a Republican, was appointed to replace him.