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NOTABLES Grace Abbott, social reformer, Grand Island Besse Streeter Aldrich, author, Elmwood Harley B Alexander, anthropologist/poet, Lincoln Clarke Ansley, educator, Lincoln Ritchie Ashburn, major league ballplayer, Tilden Max Baer, Boxer, heavyweight Champion '34-'35, Omaha Henry M. Beachell, agronomist,'95 World FoodPrize, Waverly/Grant H Malcolm Baldrige, US Secretary Commerce, Omaha George Beadle, geneticist, Nobel Prize '58, Wahoo Standing Bear, Ponca Indian Chief, Niobrara/Decatur Walter Behlen, industrialist, '65 Horatio AlgerAward, Columbus Charles E. Bessey, botanist, humorist, Lincoln James F. Bonner, molecular biologist, Ansley Robert Boozer, basketball player, Olympic gold medal, Omaha J. Gutzon Borglum, engineer/designer Mount Rushmore, Fremont Herbert Brownell, US Attorney General, Peru/Lincoln Samuel Brownell, US Commissioner of Education, Peru/Lincoln William Jennings Bryan, orator, presidential candidate, Lincoln Warren Buffett, philanthropist, Omaha Willa Cather, author, Red Cloud Berlin Guy Chamberlin, football player, Blue Springs Donald O. Clifton, founder, Selection Research Institute, Gallup Organization, Butte/Lincoln William Cody, explorer, entertainer, North Platte George E. Condra, geologist, educator, Lincoln Edward Creighton, telegraph pioneer, banker, Omaha Charles G. Dawes, US Vice President, Lincoln George H. Dern, US Secretary of War, Scribner/Hooper John Ray Dunning, nuclear physicist, Shelby Mignon Good Eberhart, novelist, Lincoln Harold Edgerton, inventor, scientist, Fremont/Aurora Loren Eiseley, author, philosopher, Lincoln Val L. Fitch, Nobel Prize physics, Merriman\Gordon Edward Flanagan, founder, Boys Town, Omaha Jay W. Forrester, elec engineer, '79 Inventors Hall of Fame, Anselmo Gerald R. Ford, 38th US President, Omaha Robert W. Furnas, newspaperman, soldier, historian, Brownville Bob Gibson, major league pitcher, Omaha Harold Gifford, opthamologist, educator, Omaha Alfred M. Gruenther, US Army general, NATO, Red Cross, Platte Center Dwight P. Griswold, banker, publisher, Governor, Harrison/Gordon Joyce C. Hall, founder Hallmark Cards, David City/Norfolk Stanley K. Hathaway, US Secretary Interior, Osceola Robert Henri, painter, teacher, Cozad Edgar Howard, newspaper editor, politician, Papillion/Columbus Gilbert M. Hitchcock, newspaperman, politician US Senate, Omaha Joseph McVicker Hunt, psychologist, Scottsbluff William M. Jeffers, president Union Pacific Railroad, North Platte/Omaha H. Weldon Kees, writer, poet, painter, Beatrice Peter Kiewit, contractor, philanthropist, Omaha Moses P. Kinkaid, Nebr congressman, O'Neill Rolland Kirby, political cartoonist, Hastings Lawrence Klein, economist, Nobel Prize '80, Omaha Susette LaFiesche, speaker, writer, Bellevue/Lincoln, TibblesIndian rights Francis LaFlesche, ethnologist, author, Indian rights activist, Macy/Bellevue Melvin Laird, US Secretary of Defense, Omaha Ernst Lied, realtor, philanthropist, Omaha William Roy Lyman, football player, Table Rock Malcolm X, social reformer, Omaha Francis P. Matthews, US Secretary of Navy, Albion/Omaha Samuel R. McKelvie, Governor, Fairfield Butler B. Miltonberger, US Army National Guard, North Platte Richard A. Moores, illustrator Gasoline Alley comic strip, Lincoln J. Sterling Morton, founder Arbor Day, Nebraska City Wright Morris, writer, Central City Paul Morton, US Secretary of Navy, Nebraska City John G. Neihardt, poet, philosopher, Bancroft George W. Norris, US Senator, McCook Tillie L. Olsen, writer, Mead/Omaha Tom Osborne, UNL football coach, Hastings Lawton S. Parker, portrait painter, Kearney/Grand Island/Lincoln Peter G. Peterson, US Secretary of Commerce, Kearney John J. Pershing, WWI General, Lincoln Nathan Roscoe Pound, lawyer, educator, Dean Harvard Law School, Lincoln Red Cloud, Ogallala Sioux Chief, Garden County Elmo Burns Roper, public opinion analyst, Hebron Mari Sandoz, author, Sheridan County Gayle Sayers, football player, Omaha Walter Scott, chief executive, '97 Horatio Alger Award, Omaha William Sessions, FBI director, Kearney Theodore C. Sorensen, presidential advisor, Lincoln Evelyn Brodstone Vestey, corporate executive, Superior Sam Yorty, Los Angeles mayor, Congressman, Lincoln Clayton Yeutter, US Trade Representative, US Secretary of Agriculture, Eustis/Lincoln Harold Warp, industrialist, founder Pioneer Village, Minden TOP www.nebraskacoast.com © 2010 Nebraska Coast Connection P.O. Box 92480, Pasadena, CA 91109-2480 howdy@nebraskacoast.com