Background
Spillman, Ora Seldon was born on March 10, 1881 in near Grinnell, Iowa, United States. Son of James. Alexander and Sarah Elizabeth (Vestal) Spillman.
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Ora Seldon Spillman
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B.Did., Highland Park College (now Des Moines U.), 1902. Post-graduate work same college, 1903-1904. Bachelor of Laws, University of Nebraska, 1908.
Career
Schools, Pierce County, at time of marriage). Admitted to Nebraska bar, 1908, and began practice at Pierce, 1909. County attorney Pierce County, 1912-1914.
Republican nominee for Congress, 3d Nebraska District, 1913. Member Nebraska Constitutional Convention, 1920 (chairman suffrage committee). Elected attorney general of Nebraska 1922, and reelected, 1924, and again in 1926, by two of the largest majorities ever received up to that time by a candidate for state office in Nebraska.
Member of law firm of Spillman & Ptak, Norfolk. Secured seat for farmers in Omaha Grain Exchange. Fought gasoline and power trusts and combines.
Won first victories, and obtained first decrees under discrimination sections of Nebraska anti-trust laws against oil and power companies. Called first National Conference of Attorneys General in Chicago, 1923, and presided over same (26 states and unites states department of Justice represented). Representative of Nebraska in action against “Pittsburgh Plus” system.
Politics
When peaceful alternatives have failed, the force of arms may regretfully be preferable to unchecked aggression, tyranny and genocide.
Views
All persons need the ministry of the Church in their struggles for human fulfillment, as well as the spiritual and emotional care of a fellowship that enables reconciling relationships with God, with others, and with self.
Membership
Member American and Nebraska State bar associations, International Association Attorneys General (president 1928), National Conference Attorneys General (chairman permanent Executive Committee). Mason. American Legion.
Connections
Married Florence Marjorie Parminter, November 27, 1924 (county superintendent.
