Norbert Tiemann

Norbert Theodore Tiemann (born July 18, 1924) was a Republican politician from Wausa, Nebraska best known for being the 32nd Governor of Nebraska from 1967 to 1971. He was born in Minden, Nebraska. He attended Campbell High School in Campbell, Nebraska where he graduated in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war he attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he was a member of the Society of Innocents and Beta Sigma Psi fraternity. Tiemann graduated in 1949 with a B.S. degree. He then served in Korea from 1950-1952.

After returning to the U.S., he served three terms as mayor of Wausa, Nebraska. In 1967 Tiemann was elected Governor of Nebraska as a member of the Republican Party. He successfully pushed for a number of progressive changes, including the adoption of a new tax structure and of new programs of state financial aid to education, the expansion of the University of Nebraska, and the enactment of the state's first minimum wage law and of open-housing legislation.

He served one term and then was succeeded by J. James Exon. From 1973 to 1977 Tiemann served as Head of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration.

References

1. "The Political Graveyard". Tiemann, Norbert Theodore. Retrieved January 8, 2006.

External links

• Governor Tiemann's Official Papers at the Nebraska State Historical Society