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| Name | Bourke B. Hickenlooper |
| Address | 365 Park Terrace
Cedar Rapids, Iowa , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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July 21, 1896
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| Died | September 04, 1971
(75 years)
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| Contributor | User #23 |
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| Info | HICKENLOOPER, BOURKE BLAKEMORE, a Senator from Iowa; born in Blockton, Taylor County, Iowa, July 21, 1896; attended the public schools and Iowa State College at Ames until April 1917, when he enrolled in the officer's training camp at Fort Snelling, Minn.; commissioned a second lieutenant, embarked overseas in August 1918 and served in France as battalion orientation officer; returned to the United States in February 1919 and was honorably discharged; reentered Iowa State College and graduated in 1919; graduated from the College of Law of the State University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1922; admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Iowa state house of representatives 1934-1937
Lieutenant governor of Iowa 1939-1942
Iowa Governor 1943-1944
US Senate (R-IA) 1945-1969; was not a candidate for reelection in 1968; co-chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Eightieth Congress), chairman, Republican Policy Committee (Eighty-seventh through Ninetieth Congresses)
Died in Shelter Island, N.Y., September 4, 1971, while visiting; interment in Cedar Memorial Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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