Butler B. Miltonberger

(1897-1977) born in North Platte. Postman, highway engineer, military officer, appointed by U.S. President Harry Truman as commander of National Guard Bureau in Washington, DC for two years; as member of the Nebraska National Guard for almost 30 years, and Nebraska's highly decorated 134th Infantry Regiment during World War II, achieved rank of major general, and was only the second non-U.S. Military Academy graduate to be promoted in the field to brigadier general. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, May 20, 1945, p. C-16 and March 24, 1946, p. C-3 and July 12, 1964, pp. 4-5 and J. R. Johnson, Representative Nebraskans (Johnsen Publishing Company, 1954) 12l-125 and New York Times obituary, March 25, 1977, p. D-14 and Nebraska History, Winter 1988, pp. 199-203.

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