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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Dwight P. Griswold |
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Scottsbluff, Nebraska , United States |
| Email | None |
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November 27, 1893
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| Died | April 12, 1954
(60 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | GRISWOLD, Dwight Palmer - Nebraska Republican politician, Governor, and U.S. Senator.
Born in Harrison, NE, 11/27/1893; son of a pioneering banker in NE.
Graduated from Kearney (Nebr.) Military Academy in 1910; attended the Nebraska Wesleyan University 1910-1912 and graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1914; served as a sergeant in the infantry on the Mexican border in 1916; during the First World War served as a first lieutenant and later as a captain of artillery 1917-1918
Married Erma Elliott 1919; two children
Employee of the First National Bank of Gordon [NE] 1919-1922
Editor and publisher of the Gordon Journal 1922-1940
Member, State house of representatives 1921; member, State senate 1925-1929
Unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1932, 1934, and 1936. Throughout his political career, Griswold almost always was the leading vote getter on the Republican ticket, usually even leading the presidential electors.
Governor of Nebraska 1940-1946. As an internationalist Republican, he supported Willkie at the 1940 Republican convention and then supported the lend lease program.
Unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1946; his defeat was possibly due to his moderate reputation in foreign affairs
Director, Division of Internal Affairs and Communications, Military Government of Germany 1947; chief, American Mission for Aid to Greece 1947-1948; member, Nebraska University Board of Regents 1950-1954
US Senate (R-NE) 1952-1954 (died in office); elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry
Presbyterian, Mason, American Legion
Died on 4/12/1954. Suffered a heart attack while on his way home from a party at the home of Admiral Arthur Davis at 10 p.m., 4/11/1954; taken to the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., where he died a few hours later. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Scottsbluff, Nebr. Griswold's death gave the Democrats a temporary 48-47 edge in the US Senate.
New York Times 4/12/1954 |
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