Augustin Reed Humphrey (February 18, 1859 – December 10, 1937) was an American

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politician. Humphrey was born in 1859 near

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. He moved with his family to

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, in 1864. Humphrey graduated from the Southern Iowa Normal School at Bloomfield in 1881; and the

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of the

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in 1882. He passed the Bar in the same year. Humphrey started to practice law in

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in 1885, and received a

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in 1886, where he farmed and raised livestock. Humphrey was a delegate to every Republican State convention from 1887 to 1936; and was the commissioner of public lands and buildings of Nebraska from 1891 to 1895. He was president of the Broken Bow

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from 1898 to 1914. Humphrey was a

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from 1906 to 1910, and the mayor of Broken Bow from 1916 to 1917. Humphrey moved to a ranch on the South Loup River in 1920. Humphrey was elected to the

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in 1922 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of long-standing representative,

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. He served until March 3, 1923, not running for reelection. Humphrey died on a trip to

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in 1937, and is interred in the Broken Bow Cemetery.

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