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Senate Years of Service: 1962-1967 Party: Republican
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SIMPSON, Milward Lee, (father of Alan Kooi Simpson),
a Senator from Wyoming; born in Jackson, Teton County, Wyo.,
November 12, 1897; attended the public schools of Wood River, Meeteetse, and
Cody; graduated from the University of Wyoming at Laramie in 1921; attended
Harvard University Law School 1921-1925; during the First World War served as a
second lieutenant in the Infantry, United States Army; admitted to the bar in
1926 and practiced law in Cody, Wyo., until 1955; member, State house of
representatives 1926-1927; Governor of Wyoming 1955-1959; resumed law practice
in 1959; appointed member of the board of trustees of University of Wyoming in
1939 and served as president 1943-1954; member of the National Association of
Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions in 1950 and
served as president in 1952 and 1953; elected in a special election on November
6, 1962, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Senator-elect Keith Thomson in the term ending January 3, 1967;
was not a candidate for reelection in 1966; lived in Cody, Wyo., until his
death on June 10, 1993; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Cody, Park County,
Wyo.
BibliographyU.S. Congress. Tributes to Milward L. Simpson of
Wyoming. 89th Cong., 2nd sess., 1966. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1966; Wakefield, Robert.
Milward L. Simpson: The Fiery Petrel. Sheridan, Wyo.:
Wellington Press, 2005.
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