He continued the practice of law until 1885, when he established and edited the Omaha Evening World; four years later, he purchased the Nebraska Morning Herald and consolidated the two into the morning and evening editions of the Omaha World-Herald.

His first wife died on May 8, 1925, and on June 1, 1927, he married Martha Harris, of Memphis, TN.

As Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leading advocate of the League of Nations [5] and the Treaty of Versailles.

[7] The newspaper was then led by his son-in-law Henry Doorly, husband of Hitchcock's daughter Margaret.

Collections of Senator Hitchcock's papers are housed at the Library of Congress and Nebraska State Historical Society.