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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NebraskaRobert Glenmore SIMMONS
(1891-1969)
SIMMONS, Robert Glenmore,
a Representative from Nebraska; born in Scotts Bluff County, near
Scottsbluff, Nebr., December 25, 1891; attended the public schools
and Hastings (Nebr.) College 1909-1911; was graduated from the law
college of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1915; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Gering,
Nebr.; elected prosecuting attorney of Scotts Bluff County in 1916;
during the First World War enlisted in the Army on October 15,
1917, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air
Service March 12, 1918, being discharged January 14, 1919; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for
election to the United States Senate in 1934 and again in 1936;
resumed the practice of law in Lincoln, Nebr.; elected chief
justice of Nebraska in 1938; deputy judge, administrative tribunal
of the International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, in
1955; retired January 1963, after more than twenty-four
years’ service as chief justice; returned to private law
practice in Lincoln; died December 27, 1969, in Lincoln, Nebr.;
interment in Fairview Cemetery, Scottsbluff, Nebr.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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