Augustin Reed Humphrey

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Augustin Reed Humphrey (February 18, 1859 – December 10, 1937) was a Nebraska Republican politician.

Born in 1859 near Madison, Indiana, he moved with his parents to Drakesville, Iowa, in 1864. Graduated from the Southern Iowa Normal School at Bloomfield in 1881 and the law department of the University of Iowa in 1882, passing the bar on the same year. He started to practice law in Broken Bow, Nebraska in 1885, then created a homestead in Custer County, Nebraska in 1886, where he farmed and raised livestock.

He was a delegate to every Republican State convention from 1887 to 1936 and was commissioner of public lands and buildings of Nebraska from 1891 to 1895. He was president of the Broken Bow board of education from 1898 to 1914. He was a probate judge from 1906 to 1910, and the mayor of Broken Bow from 1916 to 1917. He then moved to his ranch on the South Loop River in 1920.

Humphrey was elected to the 67th congress (1922) to fill the vacancy caused by the death of long-standing representative Moses P. Kinkaid. He served until March 3, 1923, not running for reelection. He died on a trip to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1937, and is interred in Broken Bow Cemetery.

Preceded by Moses P. Kinkaid (R)

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 6th congressional district November 7, 1922 – March 3, 1923

Succeeded by Robert G. Simmons (R)

[edit] References

1. The Political Graveyard. Humphrey, Augustin Reed. Retrieved on January 14, 2006.
2. Congressional Bioguide. Humphrey, Augustin Reed. Retrieved on January 14, 2006.

• This article incorporates facts obtained from The Political Graveyard.

• Augustin Reed Humphrey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress