20 Facts About Albinus Nance

Albinus Roberts Nance was an American politician.

Albinus Nance served as a soldier during the American Civil War, and as the fourth governor of Nebraska.

Albinus Nance was born to Dr Hiram Nance and Sarah Nance.

Albinus Nance was educated in Kewanee, Illinois, until age sixteen.

Albinus Nance married Sarah White and they had one child.

At age sixteen, Albinus Nance enlisted with the 9th Illinois Cavalry.

Albinus Nance fought in the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865.

Albinus Nance fought in the battles of Hurricane Creek, Guntown, Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville.

Albinus Nance was slightly wounded during the Battle of Nashville.

In 1865, after the war was over, Albinus Nance became a student at Knox College.

Albinus Nance moved to Nebraska in 1871 to homestead and practice law, eventually settling in Osceola, Nebraska.

Albinus Nance divided his time between farming and his law practice.

Albinus Nance soon gave up farming, for his law practice and large real estate business.

In 1874, Albinus Nance was nominated by the state Republican Party to run for the Nebraska House of Representatives.

Albinus Nance won the election and served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from 1875 to 1878, and served as the Speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives from 1877 to 1878.

Albinus Nance was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876.

In 1878, while Speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives, Albinus Nance was elected Governor of Nebraska.

Albinus Nance was only thirty years old at the time of his election, and was known as "the boy governor".

Albinus Nance is known for calling in the Nebraska state militia to subdue the strikers in the Camp Dump Strike; one striker was killed by the militia.

Albinus Nance died in Chicago on December 7,1911, and was buried at Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln.