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| | 700 FAMOUS NEBRASKANS - Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Agriculturist, military officer, politician, known as Nebraska's greatest booster as member of Nebraska Board of Agriculture for four decades, served in territorial legislature and one term as Nebraska governor, wrote first common-school law for the state, was one of initiators of Arbor Day, and the major organizer of the Nebraska State Historical Society. |
 | | Diplomat, author, U.S. Congresswoman, was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives from a southern state, first woman member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, her appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark in 1933 made her the first woman to serve as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. |
 | | Consult Thomas W. Tipton, Forty Years of Nebraska at Home and in Congress, Vol 9 (Nebraska State Historical Society, 1902) 61-73, 305-313 and Dictionary of American Biography, Vol 16 (1935) 380-381 and Who Was Who in America, Rev Ed,Vol H (1967) 535-536. |
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