Hugh A. Butler

Hugh Alfred Butler ( born February 28, 1878 in Missouri Valley, † July 1, 1954 in Washington DC) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Nebraska.

Life

He left in 1900, the Doane College in Crete. Initially, he worked from 1900 to 1908 as a civil engineer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. His first stop in the policy was the member of the City Board of Curtis from 1908 to 1913 and later, the membership of the Board of Education of Omaha. Between 1908 and 1940 he worked in flour mills and in the grain business.

He was a member of the Republican National Committee in 1936 and its member he was up to election 1940 in the U.S. Senate. He was twice, in 1946 and 1952, re-elected. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands in the 80th Congress of the United States ( 1947-1949 ) and as Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in the 83rd Congress of the United States. He was a strong opponent of the full status as a state for the Alaska Territory during most of his career in the Senate, but he changed his mind in the last months of his life. He died in office on the night of 1 July 1954 after a stroke he had suffered a day earlier. He is buried in Omaha Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Robert Crosby, Governor of Nebraska, appointed after his death, Samuel Williams Reynolds to his successor.

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