Josephine A. Roche

(1886-1976) born in Neligh, Antelope County. Industrialist, lecturer, was assistant secretary in the U.S. Treasury Department, serving on the President’s Committee on Economic Security, which drafted the recommendations that resulted in the Social Security Act, was selected by American Women magazine in 1936 as one of the 10 outstanding women in the nation. Consult American National Biography, Vol 18 (1999) 688-689 and Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century (Belknap 2004) 548-549.

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