Hazel Abel

Hazel Hempel Abel (* July 10, 1888 in Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska; † 30 July 1966 in Lincoln, Nebraska) was an American politician who represented the state of Nebraska in the U.S. Senate.

Biography

Early life

Hazel Abel grew up in Omaha in 1908 and made her degree in Education at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. As a teacher of Mathematics Abel was eight years until 1916, working in schools in Papillion, Ashland and Crete, and was even elected as Director.

After initial difficulties, which brought the former wife picture with him, Abel went into the business world, opened - unusual for a woman of her time - a construction company, and sat the Abel Construction Co. from 1937 to 1952 as president before. Then they sat for another year, until 1953, the Supervisory Board.

Political career

1954 Abel became vice - chairman of the Central Committee of the Republican Party. She was elected on November 2, 1954 after the death of Dwight Griswold and the term of office of the transitional candidate Eva Kelly Bowring to Griswold's successor in the U.S. Senate. The office, which Abel took up on November 8, 1954, she held only one and a half months since they already voluntarily resigned on 31 December 1954.

Late life

Even after her retirement Abel was politically active. So it was in 1955 on a member in Washington DC Conference, which meets to improve the school system. A year later, in 1956, she led the Nebraska delegates to the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

At the same time she was at two schools, the Doane College and Nebraska Wesleyan College, worked as a supervisory official. Hazel Abel, whose private life nothing is known, died in 1966, shortly after her 80th birthday.