HICKENLOOPER BOURKE BLAKEMORE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110078-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 78
• Content Type: BIO

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HICKENLOOPER, BOURKE BLAKEMORE, Republican, of Cedar
Rapids, Linn County, Iowa; born in Blockton, Taylor County,
Iowa, July 21, 1896, son of Nathan O. and Margaret A.
(Blakemore) Hickenlooper; graduated Blockton High School, 1914;
graduated Iowa State College, B. S.; Law School, University of
Iowa, J. D.; honorary degrees, Parsons College, LL. D., and
Loras College, LL. D.; Elmira College, D. C. L.; first officers'
training camp, Fort Snelling, Minn. , 1917; served in Three
Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery in United States and
France until spring of 1919; practiced law, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
beginning 1922; elected to Iowa Legislature (house) 1934; reelected
1936; elected Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, 1938; reelected 1940;
elected Governor of Iowa, November 1942; married Verna E.
Bensch, of Lansing, Iowa, 1927; two children,
member various fraternal and
professional organizations and Methodist Church; elected to the
United States Senate in November 1944; reelected November 1950;
reelected November 1956.
Approved For Release 2007/02/28: CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110078-5