Richard Lee Metcalfe
{{Short description|American politician (1861–1954)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Richard Lee Metcalfe
| image name = Richard Lee Metcalfe.jpeg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|11|11}}
| birth_place = Upper Alton, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|3|31|1861|11|11}}
| death_place = Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
|title =Military Governor of Panama Canal Zone
|appointed = William Howard Taft
| term_start = 1913
| term_end = 1914
| predecessor = Maurice Hudson Thatcher
| successor = George Washington Goethals
as 1st civil governor
| children = Theodore W. Metcalfe
}}
Richard Lee Metcalfe (October 11, 1861 – March 31, 1954) was an American politician and editor who was the last military Governor of Panama Canal Zone and one-time Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska.
Biography
Metcalfe was born on October 11, 1861, to Richard Lee Metcalfe and Ellen Tazewell Edwards. He began his career as an editor at the Omaha World-Herald, where he also authored a biography of William Jennings Bryan.
Metcalfe ran for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska in the 1912 election but lost to John H. Morehead.
He died on March 31, 1954, in Omaha, Nebraska.{{cite news |title=R. L. Metcalfe Dead. First Civil Governor of Canal Zone, Former Editor, Was 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/04/01/archives/r-l-metcalfe-dead-first-civil-governor-of-canal-zone-former-editor.html |newspaper=New York Times |date=April 1, 1954}}{{cite news |title=Metcalfe Held Varied Jobs |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Lee_Metcalfe_obituary_on_March_31,_1954_in_the_Evening_World_Herald_of_Omaha,_Nebraska.jpg |newspaper=Omaha World-Herald |date=March 31, 1954 }}
External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Richard Lee Metcalfe}}
References
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{{s-bef|before=Gilbert Hitchcock}}
{{s-ttl|title=Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Nebraska
(Class 1)|years=1928}}
{{s-aft|after=Richard C. Hunter}}
{{Succession box|
before=Maurice Hudson Thatcher|
title=Military Governor of Panama Canal Zone |years=1913–1914|
after=Civil Governor George Washington Goethals
}}
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{{Mayors of Omaha}}
{{Governors of the Panama Canal Zone}}
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Category:20th-century mayors of places in Nebraska
Category:Governors of the Panama Canal Zone
Category:United States military governors