Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Gerald Prentice Nye of Hortonville 1892-1971

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Subject: Biography of Gerald Prentice Nye of Hortonville 1892-1971
Submitter: County Coordinator
EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
Date Submitted: Oct 19, 1999
Surnames: NYE
Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/norve-nyqui.html#R9M0J88PE;
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000176, 19 Oct 1999


Biography:
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/norve-nyqui.html#R9M0J88PE
Nye, Gerald Prentice (1892-1971) of Cooperstown, N.Dak. Born in Hortonville, Wis., December
19, 1892. U.S. Senator from North Dakota, 1925-1945; appointed 1925. Died in Washington,
D.C., July 17, 1971. Interment at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Prince George's County, Md.

See also his congressional biography.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000176

NYE, Gerald Prentice, 1892-1971 

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Years of Service: 1925-1945 
Party: Republican 


NYE, Gerald Prentice, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Hortonville, Outagamie County,
Wis., December 19, 1892; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work in Wisconsin
and Iowa; moved to North Dakota in 1915; publisher of the Billings County Pioneer, and later
editor and publisher of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier; unsuccessful candidate in 1924 for
election to the Sixty-ninth Congress; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Ladd; reelected in 1926,
1932, and again in 1938 and served from November 14, 1925, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1944; chairman, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventieth
through Seventy-second Congresses), Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions
Industry (1934-1938); president of Records Engineering, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1937-1959;
special assistant for elderly housing, Federal Housing Administration 1960-1964; member of
staff, Senate Committee on Aging 1964-1968; lawyer in Washington, D.C., 1964-1971; was a
resident of Chevy Chase, Md., until his death July 17, 1971, in Washington, D.C.; interment in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

Bibliography:
DAB; Cole, Wayne. Senator Gerald P. Nye and Foreign Relations. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1962; Larsen, Lawrence H. 'Gerald Nye and the Isolationist Argument.' North
Dakota History 47 (Winter 1980): 25-28.