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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NebraskaBUTLER, Hugh Alfred
(1878—1954)
Senate Years of Service:
1941-1954
Party:
Republican
BUTLER, Hugh Alfred, a Senator from Nebraska; born on a farm near Missouri Valley, Harrison County, Iowa, February 28, 1878; attended the public schools and was graduated from Doane College at Crete, Nebr., in 1900; construction engineer with the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad 1900-1908; member of the city board of Curtis, Nebr. 1908-1913; engaged in the flour-milling and grain business 1908-1940; member of the board of education of Omaha, Nebr.; Republican National committeeman for Nebraska 1936-1940; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 and again in 1952 and served from January 3, 1941, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., July 1, 1954; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Eightieth Congress), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Paul, Justis F. Senator Hugh Butler and Nebraska Republicanism
. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1976; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Hugh Alfred Butler
. 83d Cong., 2d sess., 1954. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955.
Paul, Justus F. “Butler, Griswold, Wherry: The Struggle for Dominance of Nebraska Republicanism, 1941-1946.” North Dakota Quarterly
43 (Autumn 1975): 51-61.
___. “Isolationism Versus Internationalism? The Republican Senatorial Primary in Nebraska, 1946.” Nebraska History
56 (Spring 1975): 145-56.
___. “The Making of a Senator: The Early Life of Hugh Butler.” Nebraska History
49 (Autumn 1968): 247-67.
___. “The Power of Seniority: Senator Hugh Butler and Statehood for Hawaii.” Hawaiian Journal of History
9 (1975): 140-47.
___. “Senator Hugh Butler and Aid to Latin America, 1943-1944.”South Dakota History
8 (Winter 1977): 34-45.
___. Senator Hugh Butler and Nebraska Republicanism
. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1976. Distributed by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Hugh Alfred Butler, Late a Senator from Nebraska
. 83d Cong., 2d sess., 1954. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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