Thomas H. Tibbles

(1838-1928) lived at Omaha. Journalist, social reformer, was instrumental in arranging legal assistance for Chief Standing Bear and other Native Americans in 1879 that led to their freedom, launched nationwide campaign to protect the rights of Native Americans on their reservations which culminated in passage of the Dawes Act of 1887, which was later the subject of reform in the 1920s; was an early advocate of an income tax, inheritance tax, government regulation of railroads, and the Australian ballot, was Populist Party nominee for vice president in 1904. Consult New York Times obituary, May 15, 1928, p. 27 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 21 (1931) 76-77 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, August 18, 1957, pp. G-6, G-25, G-28 and Jean Sanders, Notable Nebraskans (Media Productions, 1998) 27-34.

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