Harlow Hyde

Hyde was a state budget analyst who, as a private citizen, attacked the Nebraska state budget for spending too much on higher education in an 11 page letter sent to state legislators and newspapers. This caused a temporary uproar at the University and in the State College System. An anti-Keynesian who believed all budgeting is household budgeting, he entered the Republican primary (1977), as a critic of Social Security funding, seeking to replace Charles Thone in Congress, but lost. He contributed to a number of state reports and was widely interviewed about his concern that the birth rate in Great Plains states was falling.

Places Lived

Lincoln, NE

Author Of

Nonfiction

Keywords

Great Plains

Occupation

Budget Analyst for the Nebraska Department of Public Instruction

Places Worked

Department of Health and Human Services

Bibliography

Scraps of Paper: The Disarmament Treaties Between the Wars. 1988.

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