Theodore W. Metcalfe (August 16, 1894 – February 19, 1973) was the 19th lieutenant governor of Nebraska. Metcalfe was born in Omaha, Nebraska in August 1894, the son of Omaha mayor and

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and his wife Elizabeth Buehler. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska in the 1930 election, serving with Democratic Governor Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jennings Bryan. In his position as Lieutenant Governor, Metcalfe took advantage of Bryan's occasional absence from the state to play practical jokes, and in 1931 he established the office of

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, a humorous and effectively meaningless role which references the fact that Nebraska is the only triply landlocked U.S. state. In 1934, Metcalfe ran in Nebraska's gubernatorial election, and was defeated by Dwight Griswold in the Republican primary. He again ran for office in the 1940 election for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, and was defeated by Democrat

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. In 1952 and 1960, he served as a delegate to the

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from Nebraska. He died on February 19, 1973, and is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Omaha, Nebraska.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Metcalfe, Theodore W. Lieutenant Governors of Nebraska 1894 births 1973 deaths People from Omaha, Nebraska 20th-century American politicians