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Senate Years of Service: 1925-1945 Party: Republican
NYE, Gerald Prentice, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Hortonville, Outagamie County,
Wis., December 19, 1892; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work
in Wisconsin and Iowa; moved to North Dakota in 1915; publisher of the Billings
County Pioneer, and later editor and publisher of the Griggs County
Sentinel-Courier; unsuccessful candidate in 1924 for election to the
Sixty-ninth Congress; appointed on November 14, 1925, and subsequently elected
on June 30, 1926, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Ladd; reelected in 1926, 1932, and
again in 1938 and served from November 14, 1925, to January 3, 1945;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944; chairman, Committee on Public
Lands and Surveys (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses), Special
Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (1934-1938); president of
Records Engineering, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1937-1959; special assistant for
elderly housing, Federal Housing Administration 1960-1964; member of staff,
Senate Committee on Aging 1964-1968; associate in firm of Hurley, Clark and
Associates, 1964-1971; was a resident of Chevy Chase, Md., until his death on
July 17, 1971, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Cole, Wayne.
Senator Gerald P. Nye and Foreign Relations. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1962; Larsen, Lawrence H. Gerald Nye and the
Isolationist Argument.
North Dakota History 47 (Winter 1980): 25-28.
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