The coach who brought about the most wins in Cornhusker history is Tom Osborne, who led the team for 25 seasons and attained the best winning % for a coach over a career, from 1973 to 1997 ; his final record at Nebraska was 255 – 49 – 3.

Brokaw's television career began at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, followed by stints at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska and WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, the only child of Thomas and Isabelle ( née Trapp ) McGuire, she began her acting career on the stage at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

During his career, Paine received honorary doctor of science degrees from Brown University, Clarkson College of Technology, Nebraska Wesleyan University, the University of New Brunswick, Oklahoma City University, and an honorary doctor of engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

He had originally signed a letter of intent to play football for Nebraska but he turned down both offers in favor of a baseball career.

He served as the head football coach at Ohio Wesleyan University ( 1897 ), the University of Nebraska – Lincoln ( 1898 ), the University of Kansas ( 1899 ), Stanford University ( 1900 ), San Jose State University ( 1900 ), and the University of Michigan ( 1901 – 1923, 1925 – 1926 ), compiling a career college football record of 198 – 35 – 12.

Yeutter began his professional political career as the Chief of Staff to the Governor of Nebraska in January 1967.

He has chased tornadoes in Nebraska, lived through several landfalling hurricanes in Charleston, SC and forecasted countless nor ' easters in Philadelphia, PA. Justin began his career in 2001 doing morning weather in Hastings, NE with other stints in Charleston and Philadelphia.

She begins her career as the second Star-Spangled Kid in order to annoy Dugan as partial revenge for him marrying her mother and supposedly forcing the family to move from Los Angeles to Blue Valley, Nebraska.

After a brief career in education as a school superintendent in Wisner, Nebraska, Merriam was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives as a Republican at the age of 31 in 1896.

The Nebraska Capitol job was Lawrie's largest commission in his nearly seventy year-long career as an architectural sculptor.

Following his military service, Wherry began a business career selling automobiles, furniture, and livestock ; he was also a licensed undertaker with offices in Nebraska and Kansas.

Lieberman's WBL career is featured in the book " Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978 – 1981 ," by Karra Porter ( University of Nebraska Press, 2006 ).

* Nebraska career total offense leader with 7, 915 yards

* Owns Nebraska career record for most rushing yards by a quarterback ( 3, 434 )

Shortly thereafter, Steele began his radio career working outside of L. A. at a small station, KBUC in Corona, CA then moving on to KEPR Kennewick, KIMA Yakima and KXLY Spokane, all in Washington ; KOIL Omaha, Nebraska ; KISN Portland, Oregon, and KEWB San Francisco before returning to Los Angeles to help kick off what would become one of the most influential radio stations in the country, 93 / KHJ, Boss Radio, in April 1965.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent two years in the army during World War II and began his television career as KMTV-Omaha's first newscaster.

In his career at Oklahoma, several of Stoops ' assistants have become head coaches at other Division 1-A programs, including brother Mike Stoops ( Arizona ), Mark Mangino ( Kansas ), Mike Leach ( Texas Tech ), Chuck Long ( San Diego State ), Bo Pelini ( Nebraska ), Kevin Sumlin ( Texas A & M ) and Kevin Wilson ( Indiana ).

He served as the head coach at the University of Wyoming from 1957 to 1961 and at the University of Nebraska from 1962 to 1972, compiling a career college football record of 136 – 30 – 7 ().

His record in his final three seasons was 32 – 2 – 2 (), and his career college head coaching record at Wyoming and Nebraska was 136 – 30 – 7 () in 16 seasons.

LaFlesche Picotte worked in Nebraska, providing health care to her Omaha people for much of her career.

Hart began her full-time television career at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska.

He began his career in 1955 at KWBE in Beatrice, Nebraska, while majoring in accounting at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

In the 1984 Orange Bowl, all-American guard Dean Steinkuhler scored a touchdown for Nebraska on a planned fumble early in the game's second quarter when his team was down 17 – 0 to the University of Miami.

Nebraska scored a late touchdown against the # 5 ranked Miami Hurricanes to narrow the score to 31 – 30.

He scored at least one touchdown in every game he played but one, a 1925 loss to Nebraska.

In the Rose Bowl against Nebraska, Portis ran for 104 yards and a touchdown.

His father was the leader of Beth El Synagogue, the only Conservative congregation in Omaha, Nebraska, while his mother wrote educational Jewish books for children.

* Charles Henry Dietrich, Governor of Nebraska and U. S. Senator, and his wife Margretta, woman's suffrage leader

The movement reached its peak in 1892 when the party held a convention chaired by Frances Willard ( leader of the WCTU and a friend of Powderly's ) in Omaha, Nebraska and nominated candidates for the national election.

The leader, Benjamin H. Irwin of Lincoln, Nebraska, a former Baptist preacher, organized the body into the national Fire-Baptized Holiness Church at Anderson, South Carolina, in August 1898.

Griffin then became the leader for the Nebraska team of the Initiative program, part of a government controlled superhero program.

George William Norris ( July 11, 1861September 2, 1944 ) was a U. S. politician from the state of Nebraska and a leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress.

He is also a civil rights activist and is considered by most citizens of Nebraska as the most prominent and outspoken African American leader in the state.

* Former Nebraska single-season total offense leader with 2, 688 yards

In that election, Buffett was seen as " a Republican sacrificial lamb in Nebraska ’ s second district when FDR was a popular wartime leader.

Occasionally returning to acting, he played a doctor and leader of a guerrilla movement in the controversial 1987 ABC miniseries Amerika, set in post-Soviet invasion Nebraska.

Gold -- businessman, civic leader, philanthropist, and Nebraska booster.

* George L. Miller ( 1830 – 1920 ), pioneer and civic leader of Omaha, Nebraska

In 1885, Young moved with his father to Nebraska, and in the summer of 1887, they returned to Gilmore.

" Pound came to this position partly through long debates with his former colleague at the University of Nebraska, the rising sociologist Edward A. Ross.

* 2007 – Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.

His major legislation was the Norris-LaGuardia Act, cosponsored with Nebraska senator George Norris in 1932.

In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.

When Congress reconvened on December 5, 1853, this group, termed the “ F Street Mess ”, along with Virginian William O. Goode, formed the nucleus that would insist on slaveholder equality in Nebraska.

In the new bill the territory of Nebraska was extended north all the way to the 49th parallel, and any decisions on slavery were to be made " when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.

The report compared the situation in New Mexico and Utah with the situation in Nebraska.

The division was the result of concerns expressed by settlers already in Nebraska as well as the senators from Iowa who were concerned with the location of the territory's seat of government if such a large territory was created.

The USAF nuclear component was then officially combined with the United States Navy's strategic nuclear component, its Fleet Ballistic Missile ( FBM ) submarines, to form United States Strategic Command ( USSTRATCOM ), which is headquartered at SAC's former complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.

* Wausa, Nebraska, named after Gustav Vasa, but with a slightly different spelling

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

Beginning with his runaway victory in Illinois on April 9, however, Roosevelt won nine of the last ten presidential primaries ( in order, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Oregon, Maryland, California, Ohio, New Jersey, and South Dakota ), losing only Massachusetts to Taft.

In the United States all states with the exception of Nebraska ( whose legislature is a unicameral body called the " Legislature " but whose members refer to themselves as " senators ") have a state senate.

Omaha hosts the only Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in Nebraska, along with a significant Jewish community.

Its demolition in 2001 by the Nebraska Methodist Health System was unpopular, with objections from local historical and cultural groups and luminaries from around the world.

The New York Times reviewed the University of Nebraska study, among others, in 2007 and concluded that " none of the research is conclusive, and it's not known whether the changes measured in the laboratory really have a meaningful effect on people with cold symptoms.

The rest of the pyroclastic material along with of other matter, was blown as far as into the air where winds distributed it as far away as eastern Nebraska and Kansas.

In 1930, Lustig went into partnership with a middle-aged chemist from Nebraska named Tom Shaw.

Several towns in Nebraska were used as jumping off places with Omaha eventually becoming a favorite after about 1855.

* The rails of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " were joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.