Ellis James Abdnor

(1923- ) lived in Lincoln. Educator, farmer, politician, agency administrator, served in U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate from 1973 to 1987, where he promoted rural electrification, water development, and agriculture; was director of Small Business Administration from 1987 to 1989, an agency that since 1953 has guaranteed loans to small businesses made by private lenders; inducted in 1995 to South Dakota Hall of Fame. Consult Omaha World Herald, November 16, 1980, p. A-18 and ABA Banking Journal, June 1987, pp. 52-53 and South Dakota Hall of Fame, Vol 21, No 3, Fall 1995, pp. 4-5 and International Who's Who, 64th ed (2001) 3.

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