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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IowaBourke Blakemore HICKENLOOPER
(1896-1971)
Senate Years of Service:
1945-1969Party: RepublicanHICKENLOOPER, Bourke
Blakemore, a Senator from Iowa; born in Blockton, Taylor
County, Iowa, July 21, 1896; attended the public schools and Iowa
State College at Ames until April 1917, when he enrolled in the
officer’s training camp at Fort Snelling, Minn.; commissioned
a second lieutenant, embarked overseas in August 1918 and served in
France as battalion orientation officer; returned to the United
States in February 1919 and was honorably discharged; reentered
Iowa State College and graduated in 1919; graduated from the
College of Law of the State University of Iowa at Iowa City in
1922; admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa; member, State house of representatives 1934-1937;
lieutenant governor of Iowa 1939-1942 and Governor 1943-1944;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1944 for the
term commencing January 3, 1945; reelected in 1950, 1956, and 1962
for the term ending January 3, 1969; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1968; co-chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
(Eightieth Congress), chairman, Republican Policy Committee
(Eighty-seventh through Ninetieth Congresses); died in Shelter
Island, N.Y., September 4, 1971, while visiting; interment in Cedar
Memorial Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Schapsmeier, Edward, and Schapsmeier, Frederick.
‘A Strong Voice for Keeping America Strong: A Profile of
Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper.” Annals of Iowa 47
(Spring 1984): 362-76; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses.
92nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1972. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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