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Samuel Roy McKelvie (April 15, 1881 – October 6, 1956) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. McKelvie served as the 19th Governor of Nebraska, from 1919 to 1923. He was also the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, from 1913 to 1915. McKelvie was born near Fairfield, Nebraska. He attended the University of Nebraska and graduated from Lincoln Business College in 1901. He married Martha (Flossie) DeArnold on June 19, 1904 and the couple had two children.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_nebraska/col2-content/main-content-list/title_mckelvie_samuel.html )〕 As Martha McKelvie, his spouse was a noted silent movie columnist, and, starting three years after his death, the author of what became a total of twenty-four books, one of them, ''Presidents, Politicians and People I Have Known'', a memoir.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/manuscripts/family/martha-mckelvie.htm )〕 ==Career== From 1902 to 1905, McKelvie sold advertising for the ''Twentieth Century Farmer'' of Omaha, Nebraska. The editor of ''Nebraska Farmer'' beginning in 1905, he became principal owner and publisher of that paper by 1908. McKelvie was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1918, and defeated Democratic incumbent Keith Neville. Reelected in 1920, he saw a state park system initiated, construction plans for a new state capitol building approved, the state accounting system restructured, and forty-one new amendments to the state constitution sanctioned during his tenure.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_nebraska/col2-content/main-content-list/title_mckelvie_samuel.html )〕 On April 15, 1922, a few months before leaving the governorship, McKelvie helped break ground for the current Nebraska State Capitol. After stepping down from the governorship, McKelvie returned to his publishing position at ''Nebraska Farmer''. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936 and 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Roy McKelvie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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