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Due to his Senate post as President Pro Tempore, he stepped in as Lieutenant Governor of the State in May 1911, when the incumbent, M.R. Hopewell, died while in office.
John H. Morehead, acting Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, is making a good race for the primary nomination for governor at the April primaries.
John H. Morehead of Falls City, acting lieutenant governor, filed today at Lincoln as a candidate for governor in the democratic primaries next spring.
Lieutenant Governor Morehead of Falls City was in Hastings last week.... Since Lieutenant Governor Hopewell died, Mr. Morehead is acting lieutenant governor and if the governor should die, he would become governor.
As senate president, Morehead succeeded to the office of lieutenant governor, where he served from 1911 to 1912.
Through the death of Judge Melville R. Hopewell, on May 2 last, Senator Morehead became acting lieutenant governor of the state.
Lieutenant Governor John H. Morehead was in the city last Thursday and Friday and made the acquaintance of a large number of our people.