George W. Alhouse was born in Moberly, Missouri in 1896, and died in Grand Island on November 21, 1981.

George Walker Althouse was born in eastern Missouri in 1896, and served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War I. He and his wife Christine met at a beauty school in Louisiana, Missouri, in 1921 and married in 1922. Soon after they moved to Council Bluffs and started their first beauty school there. George worked as a Pullman porter in 1922, and stayed in that job for 38 years.

The Althouses moved to Omaha in 1934, and opened their new school there in 1936. George left his Pullman porter job and took over the school when his first wife died in 1959.

In 1979, George was appointed as a Nebraska Legislator after the sudden death of Edward Danner. He was a Republican who served the Eleventh District starting in February 1970. Althouse was a longtime Republican who served on the state committee and had other roles. He had served in presidential election campaigns, on the Omaha Human Rights Board, and attended the first White House Conference on Aging in 1961.

Running at the urging of various organizations later that year, and lost to a young upstart named Ernie Chambers. Althouse lost 922 to 1,342.

After that, he was active in the community and beyond. Althouse died in 1981.

George Althouse was married twice, first to Christine (1895-1959) in 1922, and then to Mildred (1909-2007) in 1966. George and Christine had one child

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