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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North DakotaNYE, Gerald Prentice
(1892—1971)
Senate Years of Service:
1925-1945
Party:
Republican
NYE, Gerald Prentice, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Hortonville, Outagamie County, Wis., December 19, 1892; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work in Wisconsin and Iowa; moved to North Dakota in 1915; publisher of the Billings County Pioneer, and later editor and publisher of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier; unsuccessful candidate in 1924 for election to the Sixty-ninth Congress; appointed on November 14, 1925, and subsequently elected on June 30, 1926, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Ladd; reelected in 1926, 1932, and again in 1938 and served from November 14, 1925, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944; chairman, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses), Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (1934-1938); president of Records Engineering, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1937-1959; special assistant for elderly housing, Federal Housing Administration 1960-1964; member of staff, Senate Committee on Aging 1964-1968; associate in firm of Hurley, Clark and Associates, 1964-1971; was a resident of Chevy Chase, Md., until his death on July 17, 1971, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Bibliography
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47 (Winter 1980): 25-28.
Clifford, J. Garry. “A Note on the Break Between Senator Nye and President Roosevelt in 1939.” North Dakota History
49 (Summer 1982): 14-17.
Cole, Wayne S. “Gerald P. Nye and Agrarian Bases for the Rise and Fall of American Isolationism.” In Three Faces of Midwestern Isolationism: Gerald P. Nye, Robert E. Wood, John L. Lewis
, edited by John N. Schacht, pp. 1-10. Iowa City: Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, 1981.
___. Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations
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Coulter, Matthew Ware. The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s: Beyond the Merchants of Death
. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Hill, Thomas Michael. “The Senate Leadership and International Policy from Lodge to Vandenberg.” Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University, 1970.
Larsen, Lawrence H. “Gerald Nye and the Isolationist Argument.” North Dakota History
47 (Winter 1980): 25-27.
Leonard, Robert James. “From County Politics to the Senate: The Learning Years for Senator Nye.” North Dakota History
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___. “The Nye Committee: Legislating Against War.” North Dakota History
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Rylance, Daniel. “A Controversial Career: Gerald P. Nye, 1925-1946.” North Dakota Quarterly
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___. “The 1944 Senatorial Election: The Defeat of Gerald P. Nye.” Master’s thesis, University of North Dakota, 1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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