Glenn Clarence Cunningham (September 10, 1912 – December 18, 2003) was an

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politician. He was born in

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on September 10, 1912 and graduated from the

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in 1935. He sold insurance for a while. From 1946 to 1948 he was a member of the Omaha board of education and a member of Omaha

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from 1947 to 1948. He was elected

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from 1949 to 1954. He was a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention and to the 1952 Republican National Convention. He was elected as a

to the

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and to the six succeeding Congresses serving from January 3, 1957 to January 3, 1971. Cunningham voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but did not vote on the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He lost his bid for renomination to the Ninety-second United States Congress in 1970 to then Douglas County Commissioner

John Y. McCollister John Yetter McCollister (June 10, 1921 – November 1, 2013) was an American Republican politician. He was born to John M. McCollister and Ruth Yetter McCollister in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1939 he graduated from Washington High School in Sioux F ...

. He died on December 18, 2003, in Omaha. He was a member of the Episcopalian church and of Pi Kappa Alpha. Glenn Cunningham Lake was named for Cunningham.

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