George S. McGovern

(1922- ) lived in Lincoln. Military pilot, educator, author, politician, government official, served two terms in U.S. Congress and three terms in U.S. Senate from South Dakota, was Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1972, served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy, as U.S. Delegate to United Nations for Presidents Ford and Carter, appointed as first United Nations global ambassador on hunger in 2001, has lectured at more than 1,000 colleges worldwide, authored nine books; appeared on cover of Time, May 8, July 24, August 14, and October 2, 1972; recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000. Consult Current Biography (1967) 265-268 and George S. McGovern, Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern (Random House, 1977) and Stephen E. Ambrose, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew The B-24s Over Germany (Simon & Schuster, 2001) and Who’s Who in America, Vol 2 (2005) 3095.

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