Dwight Willard Burney was a Nebraska

Nebraska

Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

 Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 politician

Politician

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 best known for being the 30th Governor of Nebraska

Governor of Nebraska

The Governor of Nebraska holds the "supreme executive power" of the State of Nebraska as provided by the fourth article of the Nebraska Constitution. The current Governor is Dave Heineman, a Republican, who assumed office on January 20, 2005 upon the resignation of Mike Johanns . He won a full...

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Burney was elected a member of the Nebraska Unicameral

Nebraska Legislature

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 in 1945 and won reelection until 1957 when he became the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska. He became governor of Nebraska after Ralph G. Brooks

Ralph G. Brooks

Ralph Gilmour Brooks was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 29th Governor of Nebraska. He was governor from 1959 until September 9, 1960 when he died in office. He also ran and lost as a candidate for Nebraska's first district in 1942.-References:#...

 died in office on September 9, 1960. He was governor of Nebraska until the inauguration of Frank B. Morrison

Frank B. Morrison

Frank Brenner Morrison served as the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of Nebraska from 1961 to 1967, representing the Democratic Party. He also ran for United States Senate in 1958, 1966 and 1970 but lost all three elections. He lost to Roman L. Hruska in 1958 and 1970 while in 1966 he lost to Carl...

 in 1961, and retook the position of Lieutenant Governor until 1965. He was a freemason. He died in 1987 in Hartington, Nebraska

Hartington, Nebraska

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His father, Willard H. Burney

Willard H. Burney

Willard H. Burney was a member of the Nebraska Legislature. He was a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party. A native of Grant County, Wisconsin, Burney was a Congregationalist. Burney's son, Dwight, would become Governor of Nebraska....

, was a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives.