Walter H. Jurgensen

Walter H. Jurgensen (born October 1894 in Madison , Nebraska , † 1973 ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1938 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Nebraska.

Career

Walter Jurgensen graduated from Spencer High School and then the University of Nebraska College . He then worked in the insurance industry. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1932, Jurgensen was elected lieutenant governor of Nebraska alongside Charles W. Bryan . He held this office after two re-elections between 1933 and his dismissal in 1938. He was deputy governor and formal chairman of the State Senate and, since 1937, of the Nebraska Legislature , which remained as the only chamber of the state legislature after a constitutional reform. From 1935 he served under the new governor Robert Leroy Cochran .

In March 1938, Jurgensen was sentenced to two to five years imprisonment for embezzling $ 549 in a stock deal in 1934. He was then removed from his post as Lieutenant Governor in June 1938. Since Jurgensen still had the prospect of a later unsuccessful revision negotiation at this point in time, he wanted to participate again in the primaries for lieutenant governor in 1938, but was not admitted. He had to serve his sentence, but was pardoned in 1940. Then he worked again in the insurance industry. He died in 1973.

Web links

• The Political Graveyard
• Short biography (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Telegraph-Herald: Ex-Nebraska Official Freed (December 13, 1940)