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Nebraska Constitution of 1866 ... February 20, 1867 February 21, 1867 3rd Nebraska legislature [Wikidata] 1868 4th Nebraska legislature [Wikidata] 1869
After a failed attempt to ratify a constitution in 1870, in 1874, the Nebraska Legislature proposed a constitutional convention to meet to draft a new constitution. This proposal was overwhelmingly approved by a popular vote of 18,067 to 3,880, and the convention, consisting of sixty-nine members, began meeting May 11, 1875.
The speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives was an office in the Nebraska Legislature which existed from 1855 to 1936 when Nebraska had a bicameral legislature. This office was created when the Nebraska Territory was first established and remained after Nebraska became a state. [ 1 ]
After Nebraska became a state in 1867, the upper house of the Nebraska Legislature was called the Nebraska Senate and became the successor to the Territorial Council. Since the Nebraska Constitution of 1866 did not provide for an office of lieutenant governor , it empowered the Nebraska Senate to choose its own presiding officer, called the ...
The 1868 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on October 13, 1868. [ a ] Incumbent Governor of Nebraska David Butler , the Republican nominee, was seeking reelection. He was opposed by Democratic nominee James Ralston Porter , [ b ] founder of J.R. Porter & Company.
A proposed amendment to enshrine access to abortion care in the Nebraska Constitution moved closer to appearing on the ballot in November after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates on ...
LINCOLN - Voters in Nebraska will get to decide if abortion access should be broadened or limited in the state after two opposing measures made it onto the November ballot on Friday.
BELLEVUE, Nebraska — Nebraska voters faced a first-in-the-nation test Tuesday by voting on two competing constitutional amendments on abortion in the same election — and they appeared poised ...