1. Victor Rosewater was a Republican politician and newspaper editor from Nebraska.
24 Facts About Victor Rosewater
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Victor Rosewater was chair of the Republican National Committee in 1912.
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Victor Rosewater wrote a number of books on finance and US history.
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Victor Rosewater was born on February 13,1871, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Edward Rosewater.
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Victor Rosewater's father was the founder of the Omaha Bee.
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Victor Rosewater attended Johns Hopkins University until his senior year and then transferred to Columbia University.
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Victor Rosewater graduated from Columbia in 1891 with a Master of Arts.
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Victor Rosewater toured Europe and returned to Columbia and graduated with a PhD in 1893.
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Victor Rosewater was a university fellow from 1892 to 1893.
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In 1906, Victor Rosewater helped his father run for the US Senate as a Republican, yet unsuccessful against Norris Brown, who was a Republican.
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Victor Rosewater was regent at the University of Nebraska from 1896 to 1897.
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Victor Rosewater was special lecturer on municipal finance at the University of Wisconsin from 1904.
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At the time of his death, Rosewater's father was involved in plans for launching the American Jewish Committee, and Victor assumed his father's role, becoming a founder of the AJC.
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Victor Rosewater was a member of the Omaha Public Library Board from 1894 to 1905.
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Victor Rosewater did publicity work for the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha.
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Victor Rosewater was director of the Omaha Board of Review in 1903.
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Victor Rosewater was a delegate to the National Conference on Conservation of Natural Resources in 1908.
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Victor Rosewater was delegate-at-large for Nebraska at the 1908 Republican National Convention.
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Victor Rosewater was a member of the Advisory Labor Committee for the Council of National Defense from 1917 to 1918.
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Victor Rosewater was administrator for Nebraska on the paper and pulp section of the War Industries Board in 1918.
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Victor Rosewater was chairman of the Nebraska Constitutional Convention Survey Committee in 1919.
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Victor Rosewater resigned from the role in 1924, more than a year before the exposition.
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Victor Rosewater remained in Philadelphia and wrote books and lectured at political science institutes.
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Victor Rosewater died of heart disease on July 12,1940, at his home on Locust Street in Philadelphia.