Bourke B. Hickenlooper

Bourke B. Hickenlooper
United States Senator from Iowa
In office January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1969
Preceded by	Guy M. Gillette
Succeeded by	Harold Hughes
29th Governor of Iowa
In office January 14, 1943 – January 11, 1945
Lieutenant	Robert D. Blue
Preceded by	George A. Wilson
Succeeded by	Robert D. Blue
30th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
In office January 12, 1939 – January 14, 1943
Governor	George A. Wilson
Preceded by	John K. Valentine
Succeeded by	Robert D. Blue
Personal details
Born	(1896-07-21)July 21, 1896 Blockton, Iowa, U.S.
Died	September 4, 1971(1971-09-04) (aged 75) Shelter Island, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Verna Eilene Bensch
Alma mater	Iowa State College
Occupation	Politician, Attorney

Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (July 21, 1896 – September 4, 1971), was an American politician and member of the Republican Party, first elected to statewide office in Iowa as lieutenant governor, serving from 1939 to 1943 and then as the 29th Governor of Iowa from 1943 to 1945. Hickenlooper was first elected to the United States Senate in 1944. He served in the Senate from 1945 to 1969.

Born in 1896 in Blockton, Iowa, Hickenlooper's college education at Iowa State College in Ames was interrupted by his service in the U.S. Army. He served as an officer in France during World War I. After his military service Hickenlooper continued his education at Iowa State and then went on to the University of Iowa College of Law, where he received a law degree in 1922. He practiced law in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Hickenlooper was a Methodist.

In the Senate, Hickenlooper was known as part of the most conservative and isolationistic members of the Republican Party, and as possibly one of the most conservative American congressmen. In 1967, Hickenlooper was Congress's sole non-yea vote on a bill to suppress the slave trade. He became one of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate, serving as the Republican Policy Committee Chairman from 1962 to 1969. In this position, he had an intense rivalry with Everett Dirksen, the Senate Republican leader at the time. Hickenlooper opposed civil rights legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He died in 1971 in Shelter Island, New York and is buried at the Cedar Memorial Park cemetery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Legislation

1962 Hickenlooper Amendment to the foreign aid bill cuts off aid to any country expropriating U.S. property. The amendment was aimed at Castro's Cuba, which had expropriated U.S.-owned and U.S.controlled sugar plantations and refineries.

External links

• Congressional Biography
• Biographical notes and descriptions of archive of Hickenlooper's congressional papers and notes