Hugh A. Butler

(1878-1954) lived at Cambridge, Furnas County, lived in Curtis, Crete, and Omaha. Businessman, politician, served as U.S. Senator for 14 years, credited with reviving the prominence of the Republican Party during the 1940s, became a champion for Hawaiian statehood, supported creation of United Nations, was staunch supporter of agriculture interests, served as early major benefactor of Doane College. Consult Current Biography (1950) 77-78 and New York Times obituary, July 2, 1954, p. 19 and Nebraska History, Fall 1968, 247-267 and American National Biography, Vol 4 (1999) 96-97.

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