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Nebraska is the thirty-seventh state to enter into the Union. It is located in the Midwest and borders Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
Notable Nebrakans
William Jennings Bryan, former presidential candidate, Populist statesman, and participant in the Scopes trial in the 1920s, lived in Lincoln.
Gutzon Borglun, who designed Mount Rushmore, grew up in Nebraska.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett lives in Omaha.
Famous author Willa Cather, best known for My Antonia, grew up in Red Cloud, an experience which inspired the book.
President Gerald Ford was born in Omaha.
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was born in Tilden.
Charles Starkweather, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history, was electrocuted in Nebraska.