Kenneth Spicer Wherry February 28, 1892 – November 29, 1951 was an American businessman, attorney, as well as politician. A detail of a Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1943 until his death in 1951; he was the minority leader for the last two years.
Wherry died in Washington in 1951 at age 59, while serving as Republican Floor Leader. Recovering from abdominal surgery a few weeks earlier, he felt ill as well as was admitted to George Washington University Hospital as well as died of pneumonia several hours later.
The fifteenth Senate term for Nebraska's a collection of things sharing a common attribute 2 seat, from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1955, was unusual in that it saw six Senators occupy the seat, beginning with Wherry.