12 Facts About Dwight Griswold

Dwight Palmer Griswold was an American publisher and politician from the US state of Nebraska.

Dwight Griswold served as the 25th governor of Nebraska from 1941 to 1947, and in the United States Senate from 1952 until his death in 1954.

Dwight Griswold attended the Kearney Military Academy and Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Dwight Griswold was the editor and publisher of the Gordon Journal in Gordon, Nebraska, from 1922 to 1940.

Dwight Griswold served in the Nebraska House of Representatives in 1920 and in the Nebraska Senate from 1925 to 1929.

Dwight Griswold was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1932,1934, and 1936.

Dwight Griswold was elected governor in 1940 and reelected in 1942 and 1944.

Dwight Griswold served in the Military Government of Germany in 1947 and was chief of the American mission for aid to Greece from 1947 to 1948.

Dwight Griswold was elected to the United States Senate in 1952 to complete an unexpired term scheduled to end on January 3,1955, but died on April 12,1954, in the Bethesda Naval Hospital of a heart attack.

Dwight Griswold was the third of six Senators to serve during the fifteenth Senate term for Nebraska's Class 2 seat, from January 3,1949 to January 3,1955.

Dwight Griswold is interred at Fairview Cemetery in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

Dwight Griswold is a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame, inducted in 1993.