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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NebraskaGilbert Monell HITCHCOCK
(1859-1934)
Senate Years of Service:
1911-1923Party: DemocratHITCHCOCK, Gilbert Monell,
(son of Phineas Warren Hitchcock), a Representative and a Senator
from Nebraska; born in Omaha, Nebr., September 18, 1859; attended
the public schools of Omaha and the gymnasium at Baden-Baden,
Germany; graduated from the law department of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1881; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Omaha, Nebr., in 1882; continued the practice of law
until 1885, when he established and edited the Omaha Evening World;
purchased the Nebraska Morning Herald in 1889 and consolidated the
two into the Morning and Evening World Herald; unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth
Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March
4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911);
did not seek renomination in 1910, having become a candidate for
the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate January 18, 1911; reelected in 1916 and served from
March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1922 and for election in 1930; chairman, Committee on
the Philippines (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses),
Committee on Foreign Relations (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on
Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Sixty-sixth Congress);
resumed newspaper work in Omaha, Nebr.; retired from active
business in 1933 and moved to Washington, D.C., where he died on
February 3, 1934; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha,
Nebr.
Bibliography
Ryley, Thomas W. Gilbert Hitchcock of Nebraska —
Wilson’s Floor Leader in the Fight for the Versailles
Treaty. New York: The Edward Mellen Press, 1998; Patterson,
Robert. “Gilbert M. Hitchcock: A Story of Two Careers.”
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, 1940; Wimer, Kurt.
“Senator Hitchcock and the League of Nations.”
Nebraska History 44 (September 1963): 189-204.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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