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Senate Years of Service: 1955-1979 Party: Republican
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CURTIS, Carl Thomas, a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born near Minden, Kearney
County, Nebr., March 15, 1905; attended the public schools, and Nebraska Wesleyan University at
Lincoln; teacher in the Minden, Nebr., schools in 1927; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1930
and commenced practice in Minden; county attorney of Kearney County, Nebr. 1931-1934; elected
as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served
from January 3, 1939, until his resignation December 31,1954; was not a candidate for reelection;
elected as a Republican in 1954 to the United States Senate for the six-year term commencing
January 3, 1955; subsequently appointed by the Governor, January 1, 1955, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Hazel H. Abel for the term ending January 3, 1955; reelected in 1960, 1966, and
again in 1972 and served from January 1, 1955, to January 3, 1979; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1978; chairman, Republican Conference (1975-1979); practiced law in Lincoln, Nebr.
where he was a resident until his death on January 24, 2000; interment in Minden Cemetery in
Minden, Nebr.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Curtis, Carl T. To Remind. Henderson, NE: Service Press, 1982; Curtis,
Carl T., and Regis Courtemanche. Forty Years Against the Tide: Congress and the Welfare
State. Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1986.
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