Frank B. Morrison

(1905-2004) lived in McCook and Lincoln. Attorney, politician, tourism promoter, known for initiating the first historical attraction in the nation to span an Interstate highway, which opened at Kearney, Nebraska in June 2000, he offered important innovations while governor of Nebraska from 1961 to 1967, including a state-wide educational television system, the first water resources study, the first Commission on the Status of Women, and development of state tourism; the Kearney archway received the 2001 THEA Award from the international tourist attraction society Themed Entertainment Association. Consult Lincoln Sunday Journal Star, October 14, 1990, pp. J-1, J-3 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, January 31, 2000, pp. A-1, A- 6 and Nebraska Life, May/June 2001, pp. 49-54 and Frank B. Morrison, My Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Media Productions and Marketing, 2001) and Jean Sanders, The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument (Archway Memorial Foundation, 2002) and New York Times, June 27, 2003, pp. D-1, D-8 and obituary in Lincoln Journal Star, April 20, 2004, pp. A-1, A-9.

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