Charles Henry Dietrich (26 November 1853-10 April 1924) was the Republican Governor of Nebraska from 3 January to 1 May 1901 (succeeding William A. Poynter and preceding Ezra P. Savage) and a US Senator from Nebraska from 1 May 1901 to 3 March 1905 (succeeding William V. Allen and preceding Elmer Burkett).
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Charles Henry Dietrich was born in Aurora, Illinois in 1853 to a family of German ancestry, and he worked as a hardware store clerk in St. Joseph, Missouri before moving to Chicago to enter the hardware business. He moved to Deadwood, South Dakota in 1875 and became a mine owner in the Black Hills, and, in 1878, he moved to Hastings, Nebraska. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and banking before serving as a bank president from 1887 to 1905, and he served as Governor in 1901 before being appointed to the US Senate. Dietrich supported American imperialism while serving on the Lodge Committee that investigated American war crimes during the Spanish-American War, and he retired in 1904 and died in 1924.