In addition to the six candidates who ran in the Republican primary listed below, a petition was filed by 38 Republicans from Lancaster County for Theodore W. Metcalfe, former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor from 1931 to 1933 and unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Nebraska in 1934, to run for his old office of lieutenant governor.[4] Metcalfe notified the Nebraska Secretary of State that he would not accept the petition to run for lieutenant governor and thus was not a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1936.[5]
Candidates
C. A. "Doc" Green, candidate for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 1934 from Lincoln, Nebraska[6][2]
On March 7, 1938, incumbent Nebraska Lieutenant GovernorWalter H. Jurgensen was convicted of a felony for embezzling $549 in a stock transaction between a co-defendant and a railroad station agent in September 1934.[9] Jurgensen contested the conviction and sought to be renominated for a fourth term as lieutenant governor, but he was declared ineligible to participate in the primary.[10][11] He was then removed from office by the Nebraska Supreme Court on June 25, 1938, leaving the lieutenant governor's office vacant.[9] This caused two elections, a regular and a special election, to be held for the office of lieutenant governor in 1938.
