Robert Vernon Denney

Robert Vernon Denney ( born April 11, 1916 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, † June 26, 1981 in Omaha, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1967 and 1971 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Denney attended until 1933, the Fairbury High School. He then studied at Peru State Teachers College until 1936 and at the University of Nebraska. Finally, he finished in 1939 a law degree at Creighton University. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Fairbury in this profession. In the meantime, he worked for a year as a special investigator for the FBI in Washington and Chicago.

Since October 1942, he participated as a soldier of the Marine Corps in the Second World War. After the war he remained until 1960 a member of the reserve this unit. Up to this time he had reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war he again worked as a lawyer in Fairbury. He also became district attorney in Jefferson County and the city attorney Fairbury.

Denney was a member of the Republican Party. He was both chairman of the party in Jefferson County and throughout the state of Nebraska. In 1966, he was elected in the first district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Clair Armstrong Callan replaced on January 3, 1967. After a re-election in 1968, he could remain until January 3, 1971 at the Congress. In 1970 he renounced his candidacy further. After the end of his time in Congress Denney was appointed in 1971 a judge of the Federal District Court of Nebraska. He lived in Omaha, where he died in 1981, and was buried in Fairbury.

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