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Some just stick with the name they got
Remembering the senator in his Political Notes column on Sept. 12, Gazette writer Frank Nye had this to say about the man with the unusual name.
PRESENCE OF MANY long-time friends of the late Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper's at his funeral in Cedar Rapids last week recalled memories of the days when they were engaged in his early campaigns to help him overcome the handicap of his long last name.
"A poem that appeared in a 1943 edition of The New Yorker magazine
honoring the new Iowa governor said Hickenlooper had been
introduced as Lickenhooper, Hoopenlicker, Hoppinlooker,
Doopenhoofer - names that the governor would acknowledge with a
grin and then launch into his speech for the day."
President Dwight Eisenhower, Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper, R-Iowa, (left) and Sen. Tom Martin, R-Iowa, attend the 1958 National Cornpicking Contest near Marion
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