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Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (July 21, 1896 – September 4, 1971), was an American politician and member of the Republican Party, first elected to statewide office in Iowa as lieutenant governor, serving from 1939 to 1943 and then as the 29th Governor of Iowa from 1943 to 1945.
Bourke Hickenlooper, known to his constituents as “Hick,” represented Iowa in the U.S. Senate from 1945 to 1969. During his 24 years of Senate service, Hickenlooper chaired the Republican Policy Committee and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and served as ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In this interview Hickenlooper discusses various meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] on foreign relations; Soviet and American nuclear testing; the nuclear test ban treaty; the Bay of Pigs invasion; Laos and Vietnam; the Punta del Este Conference in 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Hickenlooper's 1962 reelection campaign ...
Hickenlooper, Bourke B. (Bourke Blakemore), 1896-1971, Biographical info page, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed May 24, 2023, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/hickenlooperb
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Retro Member details. HICKENLOOPER, Bourke Blakemore (1896-1971) Senate Years of Service: 1945-1969. Biography.
BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER. Member from Iowa in the United States Senate. Annals of Iowa. ESTABLISHED 1863. VOL. XXXI, No. 6 DES. MOINES, OCTOBEB, 1952. THIHD SERIES. 'IOWAY" AND IOWA IN HISTORY' By BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER. United States Senator from Iowa. In May, 1673, a party of French voyageurs left Green Bay in Wisconsin—bound for the West.
Sep 5, 1971 · SHELTER ISLAND, L. I., Sept. 4 — Former Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Republican of Iowa, died here early today at the home of friends. He was 75 years old. The police said a heart attack...
