Outagamie County, WI - "Former Hortonville Editor Became Senator"
              
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       Subject: newspaper article "Former Hortonville Editor Became Senator"
       Submitted by: county coordinator 
       EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
       Date Submitted: 15 March 2000
              
       Source: New London Press newspaper article from Bicentennial issue,
       undated.
       
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            Perhaps Hortonville's most famous citizen was former Gerald Nye.
            He was a former editor of the Hortonville Review who became a leading
       opponent of America's entry into World War II as a Republican senator from North
       Dakota.
            Nye was born in 1892 in Hortonville but his family moved to Wittenberg when he
       was two.
            He became editor of the Hortonville Weekly Review when he was 19 and stayed
       until 1913.            After leaving Hortonville he lived a short time in Iowa and then moved to North
       Dakota where he edited a country newspaper in Cooperstown.
            He was appointed to his first Senate seat in 1925 and gained fame as chairman of
       the Public Lands committee which investigated the Teapot Dome scandal.
            As an isolationist he urged Pres.  Franklin Roosevelt to seek a negotiated peace
       in Europe before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.            After the attack Nye voted to declare war with the rest of the Senate but said
       Roosevelt was responsible for maneuvering the country into the conflict.
            In 1944, Nye was defeated for reelection and failed to win renomination in 1946.
            Later he formed Records Engineering Inc. and served as a Federal Housing
       Administration specialist on housing for the elderly.
            He died in 1971 after undergoing surgery for vascular difficulties.
       
       Photo Caption: This picture taken in 1895, shows the furniture and undertaker parlour
       owned by Fred Maiduirn on East Main St., Hortonville.  Maulduirn, his wife and two
       daughters, La Clara and Tillie are on the porch.  Harvey Hauk is driving the hearse.
       
       Photo Caption: The Gates House in Hortonville. It later became the Post Office and then
       the Leo Kluge Shoe and Cloth Store. It is now the Gene Retzlaff's office.