Carl Thomas Curtis was an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. He served as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives (1939-1954) and later the Senate (1954-1979). Curtis was born on his family's farm in Kearney County. He attended public schools and later attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Theta Chi. He studied law on his own and passed the bar exam.
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- Carl Thomas Curtis was an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. He served as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives (1939-1954) and later the Senate (1954-1979). Curtis was born on his family's farm in Kearney County. He attended public schools and later attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Theta Chi. He studied law on his own and passed the bar exam. He began practicing law in Kearney County and served as the county attorney from 1931 to 1934. Curtis was elected to the House of Representatives in 1938 on an anti-Franklin D. Roosevelt and New Deal platform. He served in the House from 1939 until 1954, being reelected every two years. Curtis ran for the Senate from Nebraska in 1954 and won the election; he was reelected three more times to six-year times, serving from 1955 to 1979. He voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Curtis was loyal to the Republican Party, particularly supporting its anti-communist stances and fiscal conservatism, which included opposition to social programs such as the New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. Curtis was a close ally of both Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon. He served as floor leader during the 1964 Republican National Convention, when Goldwater won the nomination. He supported Nixon's Vietnam War escalation policy and remained loyal to him even during the height of the Watergate scandals, when Nixon was forced to resign as President. Curtis served as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference from 1975 to 1979. Following his retirement, Curtis moved to Lincoln, where he practiced law, served as an officer of conservative lobby American Freedom Coalition, and gave occasional interviews to the media. Following his death, he was praised on the Senate floor in a speech delivered by Strom Thurmond, a contemporary of Curtis's who was also elected to the Senate in 1954.
- Carl Thomas Curtis war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker, der den Bundesstaat Nebraska in beiden Kammern des US-Kongresses vertrat. Carl Curtis kam auf der Farm seiner Familie im Kearney County zur Welt. Er besuchte die öffentlichen Schulen und später die Nebraska Wesleyan University in der Staatshauptstadt Lincoln; danach studierte er die Rechtswissenschaften, bestand die Aufnahmeprüfung zur Anwaltskammer und begann im Kearney County zu praktizieren. Von 1931 bis 1934 war er dort der Bezirksstaatsanwalt. 1938 bewarb sich Curtis um einen Sitz im Repräsentantenhaus der Vereinigten Staaten und war bei der Wahl gegen den demokratischen Amtsinhaber Charles Gustav Binderup siegreich, wobei er sich in seinem Wahlprogramm gegen Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt und dessen New Deal positionierte. In der folgenden Jahren wurde er mehrfach von den Wählern bestätigt, ehe er 1954 nicht mehr zur Wiederwahl antrat und stattdessen für den US-Senat kandidierte. Auch diese Wahl entschied Curtis für sich, woraufhin er sein Mandat ab dem 1. Januar 1955 wahrnahm. Im Senat blieb er loyal zu seiner Partei und trug deren Linie mit, wenn es um die antikommunistischen Aktivitäten der 1950er-Jahre oder später die Opposition gegenüber Sozialprogrammen der Demokraten wie Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society ging; er stimmte allerdings auch für den Civil Rights Act von 1964. Als Vertrauter von Arizonas Senator Barry Goldwater leitete er 1964 die Republican National Convention in San Francisco, bei der Goldwater als Präsidentschaftskandidat nominiert wurde. Curtis wurde später ein Anhänger von Richard Nixon nach dessen Wahl zum US-Präsidenten und unterstützte dessen Politik in Vietnam. Auch während des Watergate-Skandals hielt er zu Nixon. Von 1975 bis 1979 führte er den Vorsitz der Senate Republican Conference. 1978 trat er nicht mehr zur Wiederwahl an. Nachdem er politisch in den Ruhestand gegangen war, arbeitete Curtis wieder als Anwalt in Lincoln. Außerdem war er für die konservative Lobby-Organisation American Freedom Coalition tätig. Nach seinem Tod im Jahr 2000 hielt Strom Thurmond im Senat eine Trauerrede.
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- Carl Thomas Curtis was an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. He served as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives (1939-1954) and later the Senate (1954-1979). Curtis was born on his family's farm in Kearney County. He attended public schools and later attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Theta Chi. He studied law on his own and passed the bar exam.
- Carl Thomas Curtis war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker, der den Bundesstaat Nebraska in beiden Kammern des US-Kongresses vertrat. Carl Curtis kam auf der Farm seiner Familie im Kearney County zur Welt. Er besuchte die öffentlichen Schulen und später die Nebraska Wesleyan University in der Staatshauptstadt Lincoln; danach studierte er die Rechtswissenschaften, bestand die Aufnahmeprüfung zur Anwaltskammer und begann im Kearney County zu praktizieren.
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