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State Officials
Bios for Territorial Govenors, Territorial Delegates to
Congress,
State Govenors, NE Senators and Representatives
Proceedings
and Collections of NSHS, Second Series, Vol IV, 1902 by
Tipton
Governor of Nebraska
Territory:
William Walker - "The
Provisional Government of Nebraska Territory and the Journals of
William Walker, Provisional Governor of Nebraska Territory".
Proceedings & Collections of the Nebraska State Historical
Society, Second Series, Vol. III. 1899. Edited by William E.
Connelley.
Governors of Nebraska:
Aldrich, Chester Hardy (Gov 1911) - from Compenedium of History Reminiscence & Biography of Nebraska, p101
Butler,
David (Gov 1866) - from Portrait and Biographical Album of
Lancaster County
[Note - you can use this link to
view biographies of NE Governors in order they served, from Butler
to Thayer]
Cochran, Roy (Gov: 1935-1941) - from Lincoln County website. (see also - Who's Who in Nebraska, 1940 - Lincoln Co chapter)
Crounse, Lorenzo (Gov. 1893) - from Publications of NSHS, Vol XVIII, pp 162-179.
Dawes, James W. (Gov. 1883) - from Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County
Furnas,
Robert Wilkinson (Gov: 1872) - from
Biographical and Genealogical History of Southeastern Nebraska
or from Portrait
and Biographical Album of Lancaster County
Garber, Silas (Gov. 1874) - from Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County
Nance, Albinus (Gov. 1878) - from Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County
Poynter, W. A. (Gov 1898) - from Compenedium of History Reminiscece & Biograph of Nebraska, p102
Shallenberger,
A. C. (Gov: 1908) - from Compendium of History
Reminiscence & Biography of Western Nebraska
or from Compendium of History Reminiscence & Biography of
Nebraska, p 103.
Thayer, John M. (Gov. 1886) - from Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County
US Congressmen from NE
BRYAN, William Jennings from Semi-Centennial History of Nebraska, 1904 - p 362
NE State Senators:
Canaday, J. S. - from Compendium of History Reminiscence & Biography of Western Nebraska
Schmit,
Loran (1929 - ) - from "Bellwood, NE: The First 100
Years"
NE State Legislators
Marlatt,
I. W. (1906-1910) - from Compendium of History
Reminiscence & Biography of Western Nebraska
Multi-offices
MEIKLEJOHN, George D. - Lt Gov of NE, Congressman, Assistant Secretary of War (photo, p 287, biography p 289, from Semi-Centennial History of NE, 1904)
MORTON, J. Sterling (please scan down the page to his biography when using this link to History of NE, Andreas, 1882): Newspaper publisher; Member of Territorial Legislature (1855 & 1857); Secretary of the NE Territory (1858); Acting Governor (1858-1861); candidate for First Governor of NE State (1866, lost to Butler); US Senator representing NE; founder of Arbor Day.
George W. Thayer - see military
1887
Biographical Manual of the Twentieth Legislature of
Nebraska (no photos)
1897
Nebraska Legislative Handbook - List, many bios - all
state officials. Info about state institutions. Photos.
1901
- Souvenir, Nebraska Legislature - mostly elected
officials - state officers & both branches of Legislature
(no institutions represented in this yearbook)
Dec 2001 - Nebraska
Blue Book, 1920
Historical
Roster for the state of Nebraska.
State
elected officials of 1919
Local
government lists
Notable Former Nebraska Legislators - Warner Institute on Education
General resource: Biographical Directory of US Congress, 1774-present (search engine)
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