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Henderson was born on August 31, 1903, in Elko, Nevada to one of the small town's leading families; his relatives were prominent ranchers, businessmen, professionals, and his ancestors were early settlers in the area. His great-grandfather, Lewis Rice Bradley, a self-made cattle baron, emigrated west from Missouri to become, among other disparate things, the second governor of Nevada, elected twice. Three decades later Henderson's uncle, Charles Henderson,

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