Lewis A. Pick

(1890-1956) lived in Omaha. Military officer, civil engineer, originated flood-control plan for Missouri River Valley enacted into law in 1944 as Pick-Sloan Plan, supervised military construction worth several billion dollars in the Missouri Basin and over the Ledo Road from India to China during World War II; afterwards he supervised construction of at least 12 dams in the Missouri River Valley and several air bases in Greenland and North Africa, and all construction during the Korean War was under his direction; achieved rank of lieutenant general. Consult Current Biography (1946) 480-482 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, February 27, 1949, pp. C-4, C-5 and New York Times obituary, December 3, 1956, p. 29 and American National Biography, Vol 17 (1999) 467-469.

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