Walter H. Judd

(1898-1994) born at Rising City, Butler County, lived in Lincoln. Physician, politician, served as medical missionary to China for 10 years, as U.S. Congressman from Minnesota for 20 years, he sponsored legislation that removed racial considerations from immigration and naturalization policy regarding Asians, and legislation creating Latin American aid programs, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. Consult Current Biography (1949) 308-310 and New York Times obituary, February 15, 1994, p. A-19 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 4 (2001) 274-275.

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