Victor Emanuel Anderson

Victor Emanuel Anderson ( born March 30, 1902 in Havelock, Lancaster County, Nebraska; † August 15, 1962 ) was an American politician and from 1955 to 1959 the 29th Governor of Nebraska.

Early years and political rise

Victor Anderson attended Havelock High School and then the University of Nebraska. However, he broke his education prematurely. Instead, he worked in the hardware store of his family. Anderson was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1949 and 1950 he sat in the Nebraska Legislature. Then he was to succeed Thomas R. Pansing mayor of the city of Lincoln until 1953. In 1952 he wrote his first application to the Office of the Governor, but lost within his party against Robert B. Crosby. In November 1954 he was elected as a candidate of his party but the new governor of Nebraska, where he prevailed with 60:40 percent of the vote to Democrat William Ritchie.

Governor of Nebraska

Anderson's term began on January 6, 1955. According to a re-election in 1956 he was able to officiate a total of four years. During this time he improved public health; which mainly affected the supply of the mentally disabled. Government spending and taxes were lowered. At that time there was also a prisoner revolt in a state prison, but which was completed successfully and peacefully. In 1958, Anderson competed unsuccessfully for a third term. He resigned from his post on January 8, 1959. In the same year he was a member of the American delegation at a NATO conference in London. In July 1960 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, was first nominated to the Richard Nixon as a presidential candidate.

Short term he went into the insurance business and served as curator of the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Victor Anderson died in August 1962, he was married to Elizabeth May. The couple had a child.