Andrew F. Schoeppel

(1894-1962) lived in Lincoln. Lawyer, politician, as a two-term governor of Kansas, he promoted modernization of school systems and development of highway building plans, as three-term U.S. Senator, he was a staunch conservative who opposed sending U.S. troops to Europe after World War II but approved of the use of agricultural commodities to improve the nation's foreign relations, was critic of Presidents of both political parties. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, November 8, 1942, p. C-4 and Current Biography (1952) 517-518 and New York Times obituary, January 22, 1962, p. 23 and American National Biography, Vol 19 (1999)) 414-415.

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