Nye, Gerald Prentice

1892 - 1971  (78 years)    Has 12 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Nye, Gerald Prentice
  Born	19 Dec 1892	Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  1910 Census	1910	Wittenberg, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA
  Irwin A Nye - 41 Annie C Nye - 33 Gerald P Nye - 17 Clair J Nye - 14 Danield O Nye - 12 Margarie E Nye - 9 Lena Bartlow - 17
  Moved	Abt 1915
  To North Dakota
  WWI Draft Registration Card	5 Jun 1917
  Name: - Nye, Gerald Prentice Birth Date: - 19 Dec 1892 Birth Place: - Hortonville WI City/County: - Billings State: - ND Ethnicity: - W
  Biography	Abt 1962
  University of Minnesota Press, 1962
  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 and subsequently elected 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; lawyer in Washington, D.C., 1964-1971; was a resident of Chevy Chase, Md., until his death July 17, 1971, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; 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. See also his congressional biography. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000176
  Died	17 Jul 1971	Washington, District Of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
  Person ID	I186070	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2015

  
  

  Father	Nye, Irwin Raymond,   b. 20 Feb 1869, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 23 Aug 1923, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA  (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Prentice, Ella Phoebe,   b. 20 Jul 1870, Dale, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 19 Oct 1906, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F60676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 19 Dec 1892 - Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA 1910 Census - 1910 - Wittenberg, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA Died - 17 Jul 1971 - Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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