14 Facts About Carl Curtis

Carl Thomas Curtis was an American attorney and politician from the US state of Nebraska.

Carl Curtis served as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives and later the United States Senate.

Carl Curtis attended public schools and later attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Theta Chi.

Carl Curtis studied law on his own, passed the bar exam, and began practicing; he served as the county attorney of Kearney County, Nebraska, from 1931 to 1934.

Carl Curtis was elected to the House of Representatives in 1938 on an anti-New Deal platform.

Carl Curtis served from 1939 until 1954, being reelected every two years.

Carl Curtis ran for the Senate from Nebraska in 1954 and won; subsequently, incumbent Hazel Abel resigned, and Curtis was appointed to the seat on January 1,1955, getting a two-day jump on seniority.

Carl Curtis thus became the last of six Senators to serve during the fifteenth Senate term for Nebraska's Class 2 seat, from January 3,1949, to January 3,1955.

Carl Curtis was reelected three more times to six-year terms, serving from 1955 to 1979.

Carl Curtis voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,1960,1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court.

Carl Curtis was loyal to the Republican Party, particularly supporting its anti-communist stances and fiscal conservatism, which included opposition to social programs such as the New Deal and the Great Society.

Carl Curtis warned that the United States would become like a "banana republic" if Nixon was ousted in favor of Vice President Ford, who in turn would then select someone to fill the vice presidential slot.

Carl Curtis served as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference from 1975 to 1979.

Carl Curtis died in Lincoln on January 24,2000, and is interred at Minden Cemetery in Minden, his longtime hometown.