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Elmer Lee Andersen (1909-2004) —
also known as Elmer L. Andersen —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 17,
1909.
Son of Arne Andersen and Jennie Olivia (Johnson) Andersen.
Republican. Glue
manufacturing business; dairy farmer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Minnesota, 1948,
1964;
member of Minnesota
state senate, 1949-59; Governor of
Minnesota, 1961-63; defeated, 1962.
Lutheran.
Norwegian ancestry. Member, Rotary.
Died, in a hospital
at St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., November
15, 2004 (age 95 years, 151
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Joseph E. Anderson (b. 1884) —
also known as Joe E. Anderson —
of Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.
Born in Wester, Gottland, Sweden,
April
14, 1884.
Mayor
of Galesburg, Ill., 1931-41.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Kiwanis.
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill.
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John David Ashcroft (b. 1942) —
also known as John Ashcroft —
of Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 9,
1942.
Son of James Robert Ashcroft and Grace Pauline (Larson) Ashcroft.
Republican. Lawyer; university
professor; Missouri
state auditor, 1973-75; defeated, 1974; Missouri
state attorney general, 1977-85; Governor of
Missouri, 1985-93; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1995-2001; defeated, 2000; U.S.
Attorney General, 2001-05.
Assembly
of God. Norwegian ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Rotary; Federalist
Society.
Still living as of 2009.
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O. E. Benson (b. 1866) —
of Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill.
Born in Norway,
January
23, 1866.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 39th District, 1913-19, 1923-25,
1929-39; member of Illinois
state senate 39th District, 1939-51.
Lutheran.
Norwegian ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Modern
Woodmen.
Burial
location unknown.
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Carl Birkeland (b. 1886) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Stavanger, Norway,
March
28, 1886.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S. Vice Consul in Riga, 1921-24; Copenhagen, 1929; Warsaw, 1932-38.
Norwegian ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Fahle Burman —
of Illinois.
Born in Sweden.
Socialist. Carpenter;
delegate to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Swedish ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Adolph Olson Eberhart (1870-1944) —
also known as Adolph O. Eberhart; A. O.
Eberhart —
of Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Värmland, Sweden,
June
23, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state senate, 1903-06; Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1907-09; Governor of
Minnesota, 1909-15; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1916
(speaker);
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1916; real estate
broker.
Lutheran.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; United
Commercial Travelers.
Died December
6, 1944 (age 74 years, 166
days).
Interment somewhere
in Chicago, Ill.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Manley Lewis Fosseen (1869-1947) —
also known as Manley L. Fosseen —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Illinois, December, 1869.
Son of Osman Leonard Fosseen (1843-1914) and Isabella (Richolsen)
Fosseen (1850-1936).
Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 42nd District, 1907-14; municipal judge in
Minnesota, 1930.
Norwegian ancestry.
Died in Hennepin
County, Minn., August 9,
1947 (age 77 years, 0
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Gus Hall (1910-2000) —
also known as Arvo Kustaa Halberg —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
8, 1910.
Communist. Steelworker;
union
organizer and one of the leaders of the steelworkers' strike in
1937; candidate for mayor
of Youngstown, Ohio, 1937; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; indicted
in 1948, and convicted
in 1949, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to teach the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; fled
to Mexico; arrested
in 1951 and sent back; spent eight years in prison;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984.
Finnish ancestry.
Died, of complications from diabetes,
in Lenox Hill Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 2000 (age 90 years, 5
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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J. Herman Hallstrom —
of Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill.
Born in Sweden.
Mayor
of Rockford, Ill., 1921-27, 1929-33.
Swedish ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Knute Hill (1876-1963) —
also known as "Little Giant" —
of Prosser, Benton
County, Wash.
Born near Creston, Ogle
County, Ill., July 31,
1876.
Son of Rasmus O. Hill and Martha (Govig) Hill.
Member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1927-32; U.S.
Representative from Washington 4th District, 1933-43; defeated,
1920 (Farmer-Labor, 4th District), 1924 (Farmer-Labor, 4th District),
1946 (Independent Progressive, 5th District).
Norwegian ancestry. Member, Grange; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Desert Hot Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., December
3, 1963 (age 87 years, 125
days).
Interment at Yakima
Calvary Cemetery, Yakima, Wash.
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Sveinbjorn Johnson (1883-1946) —
of Grand Forks, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak.; Champaign, Champaign
County, Ill.
Born in Holum, Hjaltadal, Iceland,
July
10, 1883.
Son of John Johnson and Gudbjorg Johnson.
Democrat. Lawyer; North Dakota
Democratic state chair, 1920-22; North
Dakota state attorney general, 1921-22; justice of
North Dakota state supreme court, 1923-26; resigned 1926;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1936;
candidate for Illinois
state attorney general, 1944.
Lutheran.
Icelandic ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Delta Theta; Gamma
Eta Gamma; Pi Gamma
Mu; Freemasons;
Kiwanis.
Died in Champaign, Champaign
County, Ill., March 10,
1946 (age 62 years, 243
days).
Interment somewhere
in Champaign, Ill.
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Lawrence Kestenbaum (b. 1955) —
also known as Larry Kestenbaum —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
13, 1955.
Son of Justin Louis Kestenbaum (1925-1995) and Maryhelen (Dietrich)
Kestenbaum (1928-1985).
Democrat. Lawyer; Ingham
County Commissioner 8th District, 1983-88; candidate in primary
for Michigan
state house of representatives 52nd District, 1998; Washtenaw
County Commissioner 4th District, 2000-02; Washtenaw
County Clerk and Register of Deeds, 2005-.
Jewish.
Hungarian,
German,
Polish,
and Norwegian ancestry. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; American Civil
Liberties Union; Grange; Sierra
Club; NAACP.
Creator of The Political Graveyard web site.
Still living as of 2010.
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William F. Kruse (1894-1952) —
also known as Bill Kruse —
of Illinois.
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., 1894.
Socialist. Bookkeeper;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegate
to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for
secretary
of state of Illinois, 1921.
German
and Danish ancestry.
Died in 1952
(age about
58 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Anderson Leonard (b. 1880) —
also known as Walter A. Leonard —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Essex, Page
County, Iowa, August 3,
1880.
Son of Levin Anderson Leonard and Ida (Hultman) Leonard.
School
teacher; U.S. Vice Consul in Kehl, 1908; U.S. Consul in Stavanger, 1912-14; Colombo, 1914-19; Stockholm, 1924; Warsaw, 1926-29; Bremen, 1932-35; U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, 1935-36.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; American
Society for International Law.
Burial
location unknown.
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Anders Christian Nelson (1858-1929) —
also known as Anders C. Nelson —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Denmark,
May
11, 1858.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; newspaper
work; U.S. Consular Agent in Schiedam, 1903-10; Scheveningen, 1910-11; U.S. Vice Consul in The Hague, 1922-29.
Danish ancestry.
Died in Netherlands,
October
26, 1929 (age 71 years, 168
days).
Interment at Begraafplaats Oud Eik en Duinen, Den Haag, Netherlands.
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Samuel Richolson (1841-1906) —
of Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill.
Born in La Salle
County, Ill., March 25,
1841.
Son of Lars Richolson (1806-1868) and Helen (Johnson) Richolson
(1812-1898).
Lawyer;
mayor
of Ottawa, Ill., 1877-78, 1879-81.
Norwegian ancestry.
Died in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., June 24,
1906 (age 65 years, 91
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gene A. Saari (1909-1990) —
of Houghton, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Chisholm, St. Louis
County, Minn., June 21,
1909.
Democrat. Labor leader;
candidate for Michigan
state senate 32nd District, 1944, 1946; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1948; Presidential
Elector for Michigan, 1968.
Lutheran.
Finnish ancestry.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 7,
1990 (age 80 years, 290
days).
Interment at Sugar
Island Cemetery, Sugar Island, Mich.
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