Gilbert M. Hitchcock

(1859-1934) born in Omaha. Lawyer, publisher, politician, founded the Omaha World Herald in 1885 and 1889 with a global perspective, served three terms in U.S. Congress and two terms in U.S. Senate; as acting Democratic minority leader he led the Wilson Administration's efforts after World War I to obtain senatorial confirmation of the Treaty of Versailles, including the League of Nations, was chairman of resolutions committee at 1932 Democratic National Convention. Consult New York Times obituary, February 3, 1934, p. 13 and Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists (Greenwood Press, 1983) 333-335 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, February 24, 1985, pp. 10-11 and American National Biography, Vol 10 (1999) 871-872.

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