Dwight P. Griswold

(1893-1954) born at Harrison, Sioux County, lived in Gordon and Lincoln. Banker, newspaper publisher, politician, government official, served three terms as governor of Nebraska, was a contender for nomination as vice president for the Republican Party in 1944; appointed director of internal affairs and communications for the U.S. Military Government in Germany, appointed director of American Mission for Aid to Greece, where he helped establish a stable government, elected U.S. Senator in 1952. Consult Current Biography (1947) 265-267 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, October 19, 1947, p. C-7 and February 22, 1953, pp. G-4, G-24 and New York Times obituary, April 13, 1954, p. 31 and Political Profiles: The Truman Years (Facts On File, 1978) 201-202.

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