Roman Lee Hruska (/ˈrʌskə/) (August 16, 1904 – April 25, 1999) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Nebraska.

[1] In 1944, Hruska first entered politics when he accepted a seat on the Douglas County, Nebraska, Board of Commissioners in place of a friend who recently resigned.

[2] Hruska was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Omaha-dominated second district of Nebraska in 1952.

He served only part of one term, as he ran for a United States Senate seat in 1954, which was vacated by the death of Hugh Butler.

[9][10] Though Congress was controlled by Democrats for his entire tenure in the Senate, he was known as a skillful legislator and was said to have influenced many of the federal criminal justice system's changes during his era.

On October 10, 1978, President Carter signed into law a bill that renamed the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC), located in Clay County, Nebraska, for Hruska.

In 1970, Hruska addressed the Senate, urging it to confirm Richard Nixon's nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court.