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NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1926

PREFACE

The compilation of a Nebraska Blue book as a publication of the state was first authorized by the legislature of 1913. Several earlier publications of an unofficial character had been issued. In 1893 and 1897 Eric Johnson, former chief clerk of the Nebraska House of Representatives published a legislative manual and handbook, and in 1899 and 1901 blue books were issued by the State Journal Company.

The Legislature selected the Legislative Reference Bureau as the agency for editing and publishing the official statistical and descriptive state book known as the Blue Book. The first edition was in print early in 1915, and subsequent revised editions were issued in 1918, 1920, 1922, and 1924, making this revision of 1926, the sixth edition.

The Nebraska Blue book differs somewhat from many similar publications of other states and countries, in that it confines its scope absolutely to Nebraska matters. Its aim is to furnish in concise form a wide range of facts about Nebraska. Much of the information it contains is the result of original research on the part of members of the Legislative Reference Bureau staff, or has been prepared by persons especially. qualified to cover given fields of knowledge.

The new form of making appropriations imposed by the budget law has made it necessary to abandon many statistical tables showing the details of legislative appropriation since the beginning of government in the state.

The principal new feature of this edition is a list of mayors and city clerks of the cities and villages of the state. The Organic Law and Enabling Act are herein printed for the first time.

Future editions should still further adjust the subject matter to the changing times. The Blue Book is used as a reference book on Nebraska in all the schools and libraries of the state. Constant efforts to include such information as will make it most useful is part of the Reference Bureau's work for more enlightened civic life in our state.

EDNA D. BULLOCK

University of Nebraska.
November, 1926.

NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1926

CONSTITUTIONAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, 1927-28

Governor		Adam McMullen
Lieutenant-Governor		George A. Williams
Secretary of State		Frank Marsh
Auditor		L. B. Johnson
Treasurer		W. M. Stebbins
Attorney General		O. S. Spillman
Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings		Dan Swanson
Superintendent of Public Instruction		Charles W. Taylor
	{	Charles A. Randall
Railway Commissioners		H. G. Taylor
		John H. Miller

NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1926

LEGISLATURE, 1927

SENATORS

R--Republican

D--Democrat

P--Progressive

District	Name		Post Office
1	Robert J. Nibbe	R	Tecumseh
2	W. B. Banning	D	Union
3	Lad V. Tesar	D	Omaha
4	W. N. Chambers	R	Omaha
5	Victor D. Reynolds	R-	Omaha
6	John W. Robbins	R	Omaha
7	John W. Cooper.	R	Omaha
8	Albert H. Miller	R	Kennard
9	Arthur L. Neumann	D	Oakland
10	Allen S. Stinson	D	Niobrara
11	J. C. McGowan	R	Norfolk
12	Henry Behrens	R	Beemer
13	George F. Frush	D	Waboo
14	Clark Jeary	R	Lincoln
15	Charles J. Warner	R	Waverly
16	Loren H. Laughlin	R	Beatrice
17	Charles Smrha	D	Milligan
18	Charles H. Meacham, Jr.	R	Dorchester
19	Perry Reed	R	Henderson
20	Theo M. Osterman	D	Central City
21	Ralph M. Kryger	R	Neligh
22	Ross Amspoker	R	Springview
23	Emerson R. Purcell	D	Broken Bow
24	W. A. Prince	R	Grand Island
25	Charles A. Chappell	D	Minden
26	R. R. Vance	R	Hastings
27	H. E. Goodrich	R	Nelson
28	H. B. Shellenbarger	D	Stamford
29	P. W. Scott	R	McCook
30	Wesley T. Wilcox	R	North Platte
31	C. W. Johnson	R	Potter
32	Dwight Griswold	R	Gordon
33	A. B. Wood	R	Gering

REPRESENTATIVES

District	Name		Post Office
1	George W. Reneker	R	Falls City
2	Frank H. Taylor	R	Table Rock
3	E. H. Johnson	D	Sterling
4	Hen T. Skeen	D	Auburn
5	D. W. Livingston	D	Nebraska City
6	Troy L. Davis	R	Weeping Water
7	Mabel A. Gillespie	D	Gretna
8	C. Ray McKay	R	Omaha
9	John A. Singleton	R	0maha
10	F. L. Barnett	R	Omaha
11	H. T. White	R	Omaha
12	Leo L. Miskovsky	R	Omaha
13	Joseph C. Wolf	R	Omaha
14	John J. Buresh	R	Omaha
15	Patrick McMahon	D	Omaha
16	Robert C. Druesedow	R	Omaha
17	Edward B. Crofoot	R	Omaha
18	James A. Rodmam	R	Omaha
19	Karl Kehm	R	Omaha
20	Trenmor Cone	P	Benson
21	Albert W. Sprick	R	Fontanelle
22	W. S. Newmyer	R	Lyons
23	C. G. Campbell	D	Walthill
24	Dan C. Heffernan	D	Hubbard
25	J. F. Kendall	R	Ponca
26	Allen G. Burke	R	Bancroft

NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1926

District	Name		Post Office
27	George F. Staats	R	Fremont
28	John Havekost	D	Hooper
29	W. R. Mitchell	D	Wahoo
30	J. B. LaChapelle	D	Ashland
31	Richard O. Johnson	R	Havelock
32	Clinton J. Mitchell	R	Roca
33	J. A. Brown	R	Lincoln
34	J. Lloyd McMaster	R	Lincoln
35	Rollo C. Van Kirk	R	Lincoln
36	Max Kier	R	Lincoln
37	Harvey R. Essam	R	Beatrice
38	A, D, Spencer	R	Barneston
39	Frank S. Wells	D	Fairbury
40	Frank Freeouf	D	Crete
41	A. J. White	D	Utica
42	P. N. Schlentz	R	David City
43	Charles L. Jones	R	Schuyler
44	W. A. Brown	D	Stanton
45	August Wittier	R	Wayne
46	W. H. O'Gara	D	Laurel
47	Leslie D. Case	R	Bloomfield
48	George M. Story	R	Plainview
49	Obed Raasch	R	Norfolk
50	George H. Moyer	R	Madison
51	R. C. Regan	D	Columbus
52	J. C. Malster	D	Stromsburg
53	M. M. Wildman	R	York
54	George Landgren	D	Shickley
55	E. Preston Bailey	R	Carleton
56	A. M. Anderson	D	Oak
57	Thomas H. Martin	D	Harvard
58	F. C. Rundle	R	Aurora
59	L. H. Aurand	R	Chapman
60	S. B. Turner	D	Fullerton
61	John W. Porter	D	Albion
62	Elwell Johnston	R	Orchard
63	J. D. Lee	R	Lynch
64	J. O. Slaymaker.	D	Stuart
65	George W. O'Malley	D	Greeley
66	Max Adams	D	Dannebrog.
67	John McLellan	R	Grand Island
68	John Thomssen	D	Alda
69	Bert Morledge	R	Hastings
70	Walter M. Burr	D	Juniata
71	Clyde G. Pitney	D	Inavale
72	Robert Newton	R	Franklin
73	Ernest Peterson	R	Axtell
74	Charles Miner	R	Ravenna
75	C. H. Gregg	R	Kearney

76	A. S. Main	R	Loup City
77	E. M. White	R	Burwell
78	G. A. Farman, Jr	R	Ainsworth
79	J. A. Dietz	D	Broken Bow
80	S. C. Waldron	R	Callaway
81	Victor M. Hovis	R	Lexington
82	Frank Hallgren	R	Holdrege
83	E. M. Neubauer	D	Orleans
84	G. R. Curry	R	Holbrook
85	Carson Russell	R	McCook
86	A. A. Heater	D	Stockville
87	Dan L. Ough	R	Benkelman
88	E. E. Jackman	R	Grant
89	Thomas Axtell	D	North Platte
90	Henry P. Hansen	R	North Platte
91	D. C. Norris	R	Brewster
92	Arthur Bowering	R	Merriman
93	O. O. Johnson	R	Gordon
94	Freeman L. Whitney	R	Big Springs
95	George A. Ernst	D	Kimball
96	Bern R. Coulter	R	Bridgeport
97	W. M. Barbour	R	Scottsbluff
98	H. Yensen	D	Gering
99	Everett P. Wilson	R	Chadron
100	D. E. Purinton	R	Alliance