
Roman Lee Hruska (16 August 1904-25 April 1999) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NE 2) from 3 January 1953 to 8 November 1954 (succeeding Howard Buffett and preceding Jackson B. Chase) and a US Senator from Nebraska from 8 November 1954 to 27 December 1976 (succeeding Samuel W. Reynolds and preceding Edward Zorinsky).
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Roman Lee Hruska was born in David City, Nebraska in 1904, one of eleven children born to Czech immigrant parents. In 1917, the family moved to Omaha, and he served on the Douglas County Board of Commissioners from 1944 to 1952, on the Nebraska Board of Control from 1947 to 1952, in the US House of Representatives from 1953 to 1954, and in the US Senate from 1954 to 1976. He was one of the most vocally conservative Senators, claiming that the Watergate scandal was a mere partisan attack against President Richard Nixon. He voted in favor of all of the legislation of the Civil Rights movement, and he retired in 1976. He died in 1999.