Herbert Brownell Jr

(1904-1996) born at Peru, Nemaha County, lived in Lincoln. Attorney, U.S. Attorney General, political advisor to President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, appeared on cover of Time, February 16, 1953 and May 13, 1957 and cover of Newsweek, November 23, 1953; was present when first cabinet session to be telecast and broadcast was recorded at the White House on October 25, 1954. Consult Omaha World Herald Magazine, January 25, 1953, pp. G-5, G-6 and Current Biography (1954) 120-123 and New York Times obituary, May 3, 1996, p. A-29 and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 75-76.

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