Douglas K. Bereuter

(1939- ) born at York, lived in Utica and Lincoln. City planner, educator, politician, during career as U.S. Congressman from 1979 to 2004, he helped develop a loan guarantee program to enable low and moderate income Native Americans obtain home mortgages, supported a Food for Peace program to keep farm exports moving to under-developed nations, established the Farmer-to-Farmer Program to teach modern farming practices to under-developed nations, co-sponsored legislation in 1999 that granted China permanent normal trade status, and has served as elected president of the newly expanded NATO Parliamentary Assembly; recipient of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government’s Alumni Achievement Award in 2001 and inducted into the Cooperative Development Foundation’s Hall of Fame in 2002; serves as president of Asia Foundation. Consult Omaha World Herald, November 13, 1991, p. 21 and April 12, 1999, pp. 1, 8 and November 16, 2002, pp. A-1, A-2 and Congressional Quarterly’s Politics in America 2002, 107th Congress (Congressional Quarterly, 2001) 600-60l and Who’s Who in America, Vol 1 (2003) 378 and Lincoln Journal Star, February 11, 2004, pp. B-1, B-6 and August 22, 2004, pp. A-1, A-6 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Fall 2005, pp. 30-32, 34.

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