George H. Heinke

George Henry Heinke (* July 22, 1882 at Dunbar, Otoe County, Nebraska; † 2 January 1940 in Morrilton, Arkansas ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1940 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Heinke George was born on a farm near Dunbar. In 1889, he moved with his parents to Douglas, and in 1891 to San Angelo, Texas. 1894 came the family returned to Nebraska, where they settled in Talmage. George Heinke visited these places in the public schools and then studied until 1908 at the University of Nebraska law. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began in Nebraska City to work in his new profession.

Heinke George was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1919 and 1923, and again from 1927 to 1935 he was district attorney in Otoe County. In the congressional elections of 1938 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Henry Carl Luckey on January 3, 1939. Heinke was almost exactly a year in Congress when on January 2, 1940 on the way to a session of Congress in Washington DC died as a result of a car accident in Arkansas.