Dwight Griswold

Dwight Palmer Griswold (November 27, 1893 – April 12, 1954) was an American publisher and politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska.

Griswold challenged Sen. Hugh A. Butler in the 1946 Republican primary, but was badly defeated.

[4] Griswold served in the Military Government of Germany in 1947 and was chief of the American mission for aid to Greece from 1947 to 1948.

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1952 to complete an unexpired term scheduled to end on January 3, 1955, but died on April 12, 1954, in the Bethesda Naval Hospital of a heart attack.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Nebraska Blue Book, 1954.

Bust of Griswold created by George Lundeen in 1994 for the Nebraska Hall of Fame .