George H. Heinke | |
State1: | Nebraska |
District1: | 1st |
Term Start1: | January 3, 1939 |
Term End1: | January 2, 1940 |
Preceded1: | Henry Carl Luckey |
Succeeded1: | John Hyde Sweet |
Party: | Republican Party |
Birth Date: | July 22, 1882 |
Death Date: | January 2, 1940 (aged 57) |
Death Place: | Morrilton, Arkansas, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Nebraska College of Law |
George Henry Heinke (July 22, 1882 – January 2, 1940) was a Nebraska Republican politician.
He was born on a farm on July 22, 1882, near Dunbar, Nebraska, and moved in 1889 to Douglas, Nebraska, in 1891 to San Angelo, Texas, and in 1894 to Talmage, Nebraska. He graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law and passed the bar in 1908. He set up practice in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
He became the prosecuting attorney for Otoe County, Nebraska, from 1919 to 1923 and 1927 to 1935. In 1939, he was elected to the Seventy-sixth United States Congress and served from January 3, 1939, until January 2, 1940.
On January 2, 1940, while en route to Washington, D.C., he died in a car crash in Morrilton, Arkansas. He is buried in Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska City.