Career
Griswold was the editor and publisher of the Gordon Journal in Gordon, Nebraska from 1922 to 1940. He served in the Nebraska House of Representatives in 1920 and in the Nebraska Senate from 1925 to 1929. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1932, 1934, and 1936. He was elected governor in 1940 and reelected in 1942 and 1944. Griswold challenged Senator Hugh Butler in the 1946 Republican Primary, but was badly defeated.
Griswold served in the Military Government of Germany in 1947 and was chief of the American mission for aid to Greece from 1947 to 1948. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952 for a two year term ending on January 3, 1955, but died on April 12, 1954 in the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He is interred at Fairview Cemetery in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Griswold is a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
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