James E. Boyd

James E. Boyd

James E. Boyd (1834ndash 1906) was an Irish-born American politician. He was the Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska from 1881 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1887, and the governor of the state of Nebraska in 1891 and from 1892ndash 1893. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and the first Democrat elected as Nebraska's governor.

Boyd County, Nebraska is named after him.

Between 1885 and 1890 his portrait was painted in Omaha by artist Herbert A. Collins.Biography of Herbert Alexander Collins, by Alfred W. Collins, February 1975, 4 pages typed, in the possession of Collins' great-great grand-daughter, D. Dahl of Tacoma, WA]

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