Robert Dinsmore Harrison (January 26, 1897 – June 11, 1977) was a

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politician. Born on a farm near Panama, Nebraska on January 26, 1897, he graduated from Nebraska State Teachers College, now known as

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in 1926. He also graduated from

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in 1928 and

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in 1934. In 1918 to 1919, during

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, he was a sergeant in the Twenty-second Engineers. He was the superintendent of schools in Bradshaw, Nebraska (1926–1929) and

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(1929–1937). He was a member of the

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from 1942 to 1951 and a member of the Governor's Highway Advisory Committee. He owned an oil business in Norfolk and a farm in

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. He was elected as a

to the Eighty-second United States Congress, December 4, 1951, in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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. He was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 4, 1951, to January 3, 1959. Harrison voted in favor of the

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. He unsuccessfully ran for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress. He was an adviser to Board of Directors of the

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in the

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from January 6, 1959 to April 1, 1960. He was then appointed the Nebraska director for the

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on April 1, 1960 and served until February 1, 1962. He ran unsuccessfully for election in 1962 to the

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. He retired to Norfolk where he died June 11, 1977. He is buried in Panama Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Robert Dinsmore 1897 births 1977 deaths Peru State College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni People from Cedar County, Nebraska Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska 20th-century American politicians People from Norfolk, Nebraska