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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.
Republican. Glue
manufacturing business; dairy farmer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Minnesota, 1948,
1964;
member of Minnesota
state senate 42nd District, 1949-58; Governor of
Minnesota, 1961-63; defeated, 1962.
Lutheran.
Norwegian ancestry. Member, Rotary;
Alpha
Kappa Psi.
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 (1884-1941) —
also known as Joe E. Anderson —
of Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.
Born in Wester, Gottland, Sweden,
April
14, 1884.
Republican. Grocer; mayor
of Galesburg, Ill., 1931-41; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 15th District, 1936.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Kiwanis.
Died in Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., November
28, 1941 (age 57 years, 228
days).
Interment at East
Linwood Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill.
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Gustav Albert Andreen (1864-1940) —
also known as Gustav Andreen —
of Rock Island, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Porter, Porter
County, Ind., March
13, 1864.
Republican. Pastor; president,
Augustana College, 1901-35; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1932.
Lutheran.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
1, 1940 (age 76 years, 202
days).
Interment at Chippiannock
Cemetery, Rock Island, Ill.
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Paul Harold Andreen (1881-1957) —
also known as Paul H. Andreen —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; Cokato, Wright
County, Minn.
Born in Lindsborg, McPherson
County, Kan., November
19, 1881.
Republican. Pastor;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1936
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1940.
Lutheran.
Swedish ancestry.
Died in Hennepin
County, Minn., October
23, 1957 (age 75 years, 338
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Moline, 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.
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 2020.
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Reimund Baumann (born c.1875) —
of St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Denmark,
about 1875.
Honorary
Consul-General for Denmark in St.
Thomas, V.I., 1921; Consul
for Denmark in Chicago,
Ill., 1925-39.
Danish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Ole E. Benson (1866-1952) —
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.
Died in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., March 2,
1952 (age 86 years, 39
days).
Interment at Ottawa
Avenue Cemetery, Ottawa, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Bjornson Runestad Benson and Bertha Benson; married 1890 to Louise
Benson; married 1912 to Lena
Hovda. |
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memorial |
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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, as of 1929; Warsaw, as of 1932-38.
Norwegian ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Fahle Burman —
of Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Sweden.
Carpenter;
delegate to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois.
Swedish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Oscar Emonval Carlstrom (1878-1946) —
also known as Oscar E. Carlstrom —
of Aledo, Mercer
County, Ill.
Born near New Boston, Mercer
County, Ill., July 16,
1878.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
Mercer
County State's Attorney, 1916-20; served in the U.S. Army during
World War I; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 33rd District,
1920-22; Illinois
state attorney general, 1925-33; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1928,
1932;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1932, 1944.
Presbyterian.
Swedish ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Moose; Woodmen;
Kiwanis;
American Bar
Association.
Died in Aledo, Mercer
County, Ill., March 6,
1946 (age 67 years, 233
days).
Interment at Aledo
Cemetery, Aledo, Ill.
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Adolph Olson Eberhart (1870-1944) —
also known as Adolph O. Eberhart; A. O. Eberhart;
Olaf Adolf Olsson —
of Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Värmland, Sweden,
June
23, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 11th District, 1903-06; Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1907-09; Governor of
Minnesota, 1909-15; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1916
(speaker);
candidate 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.
Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 42, 1903-06; 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,
Manhattan, 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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John Herman Hallstrom (1888-1961) —
also known as J. Herman Hallstrom —
of Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill.
Born in Sweden,
November
18, 1888.
Progressive. Bricklayer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor
of Rockford, Ill., 1921-27, 1929-33; defeated, 1927, 1933;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois.
Swedish ancestry.
Died in Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill., November
14, 1961 (age 72 years, 361
days).
Interment at Scandanavian Cemetery, Rockford, Ill.
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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.
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.
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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Jo Jorgensen (b. 1957) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Libertyville, Lake
County, Ill., May 1,
1957.
Libertarian. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1992; candidate
for Vice
President of the United States, 1996; candidate for President
of the United States, 2020.
Female.
Danish ancestry.
Still living as of 2020.
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Niels Juul (1859-1929) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Denmark,
April
27, 1859.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1892;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1898; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1917-21.
Danish ancestry.
Died December
4, 1929 (age 70 years, 221
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olive Cemetery, Chicago, 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.
Democrat. Lawyer; Ingham
County Commissioner 8th District, 1983-88; candidate 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 2022.
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William F. Kruse (1894-1952) —
also known as Bill Kruse —
of Illinois.
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., 1894.
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; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegate
to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; Socialist
candidate for secretary
of state of Illinois, 1921; Workers candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1928.
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.
School
teacher; U.S. Vice Consul in Kehl, 1908; U.S. Consul in Stavanger, 1912-14; Colombo, 1914-19; Stockholm, as of 1924; Warsaw, as of 1926-29; Bremen, 1932-35; U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, 1935-36; Tallinn, as of 1938.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; American
Society for International Law.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Levin Anderson Leonard and Ida (Hultman) Leonard. |
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David Phillip Lindberg (1903-1981) —
also known as David P. Lindberg; "Boxcar
Mayor" —
of Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.; Green Valley, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., March
16, 1903.
Railroad
worker; mayor
of Galesburg, Ill., 1941-45.
Lutheran.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
Died in Green Valley, Pima
County, Ariz., January
15, 1981 (age 77 years, 305
days).
Cremated.
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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, as of 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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Joshua Oden (1880-1969) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., June 19,
1880.
Democrat. Superintendent
of schools; pastor,
Irving Park Lutheran Church, 1908-54; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1944.
Lutheran.
Swedish ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September, 1969
(age 89
years, 0 days).
Interment at Ridgewood
Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of M. P. Oden and Emma (Carlberg) Oden; married, May 25,
1909, to Helga Soderberg. |
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Lutheran Church, August 2007 |
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Bruce Vincent Rauner (b. 1956) —
also known as Bruce Rauner —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
18, 1956.
Republican. Governor of
Illinois, 2015-19; defeated, 2018.
Swedish and German
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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Samuel Richolson (1841-1906) —
of Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill.
Born in La Salle
County, Ill., March
25, 1841.
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; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan.
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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Gustaf Swensson (b. 1840) —
of Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Sweden,
1840.
Mayor
of Moline, Ill., 1895-99; defeated, 1899, 1901.
Swedish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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