Bourke B. Hickenlooper
| Bourke B. Hickenlooper | |
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| Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman | |
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In office January 3, 1962 – January 3, 1969 |
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| Preceded by | Styles Bridges |
| Succeeded by | Gordon Allott |
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United States Senator from Iowa |
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In office January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1969 |
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| Preceded by | Guy M. Gillette |
| Succeeded by | Harold Hughes |
| 29th Governor of Iowa | |
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In office January 14, 1943 – January 11, 1945 |
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| Lieutenant | Robert D. Blue |
| Preceded by | George A. Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Robert D. Blue |
| 30th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa | |
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In office January 12, 1939 – January 14, 1943 |
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| Governor | George Wilson |
| Preceded by | John K. Valentine |
| Succeeded by | Robert Blue |
| Iowa State Representative from Linn County | |
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In office 1934–1937 |
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| Personal details | |
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July 21, 1896 Blockton, Taylor County Iowa, USA |
| Died | September 4, 1971 (aged 75) Shelter Island, New York |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Verna Eilene Bensch |
| Children |
David Hickenlooper |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa College of Law |
| Occupation | Attorney; Politician |
| Religion | Methodist |
David Hickenlooper
Jane H. Oberlin
Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (July 21, 1896 – September 4, 1971) was a Republican politician from the US state of Iowa. He was lieutenant governor from 1939 to 1943 and then the 29th Governor of Iowa from 1943 to 1945. In 1944, he won election to the first of four terms in the United States Senate.
An only child of a farming couple, Hickenlooper was born in Blockton in Taylor County in southwestern Iowa. He attended Iowa State University, then Iowa State College in Ames, but his education was interrupted by his service in the United States Army during World War I. In April 1917, Hickenlooper enrolled in the officers' training camp at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to France as a battalion orientation officer.
After military service, Hickenlooper early in 1919 returned to the United States. In June 1919, he received his bachelor's degree in industrial science from Iowa State. He then enrolled at the University of Iowa College of Law, from which in 1922 he procured a law degree. He thereafter practiced law in Cedar Rapids. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1934 to 1937. His grandfather had earlier served in the same body.
When he ran for lieutenant governor, the first time unsuccessfully in 1936, Hickenlooper told voters they could call him plain "Hick" because of the difficulty of pronouncing his name. He told a yarn about his going as a child to a drugstore in the county seat of Bedford to obtain a nickel's worth of asafetida for his mother. The druggist just gave him the asafetida, a pungent herb used in cooking, to avoid having to write out both "asafetida" and the long name "Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper."
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