Chester Hardy Aldrich

Chester Hardy Aldrich ( * November 10, 1862 in Pierpont, Ashtabula County, Ohio, † March 10, 1924 ) was an American politician and between 1911 and 1913 the 17th Governor of the State of Nebraska.

Early years

Aldrich visited the Hillsdale College in Michigan and the Ohio State University, which he successfully completed in 1888. In the same year he moved to Nebraska, where he studied law and worked as a high school teacher and worked as a rancher. In 1890 he was admitted as a lawyer. First, Aldrich settled in the town of Ulysses; later he moved to David City, where he ran a law firm. In this city he was in the school council, the council and at times mayor.

Political career

Aldrich was a member of the Republican Party. In 1906 he was elected to the Senate from Nebraska, and in 1910 he made the victory in the election for governor, in which he prevailed with 52:45 percent of the vote to Democrat James Dahlman. Aldrich's two-year term began on January 5, 1911 and ended on January 9, 1913. During his reign a program for expanding the road network was established, health care has been improved at lower administrative levels were referenda on local political processes enables and a committee to monitor the state bodies was established.

Further CV

After he was not confirmed in the 1912 gubernatorial election, he retired in January 1913 from his office and was working as a lawyer. Between 1918 and his death in 1924 he was a judge on the Nebraska Supreme Court A longer but disease since June 1923 prevented him already from exercising this office. Chester Aldrich was married to Sylvia Stroman, with whom he had five children.