PoliticalGraveyard.com

Nicollet County
Minnesota

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Nicollet County

Index to Locations Fort Ridgely Cemetery Lake Prairie Township Norseland Lutheran Cemetery Norseland Skandian Grove Cemetery St. Peter Calvary Cemetery St. Peter Greenhill Cemetery St. Peter Nicollet County Courthouse Grounds Fort Ridgely Cemetery Nicollet County, Minnesota Politicians buried here:   Frank Hopkins (1877-1959) — of Fairfax, Renville County, Minn. Born in Cairo Township, Renville County, Minn., November 7, 1877. Republican. School teacher; lawyer; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 22, 1911-14; candidate for U.S. Representative from Minnesota 7th District, 1930. Died July 22, 1959 (age 81 years, 257 days). Interment at Fort Ridgely Cemetery.   Relatives: Married, October 19, 1905, to Estella Johanna Schramm.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial — Minnesota Legislator record Norseland Lutheran Cemetery Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota Politicians buried here:   Lauritz Selmer Swenson (1865-1947) — also known as Lauritz S. Swenson — of Albert Lea, Freeborn County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn. Born in New Sweden, Nicollet County, Minn., June 12, 1865. Republican. School principal; delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1896 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization), 1908 (alternate); U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1897-1905, resigned 1905; Switzerland, 1910-11; Norway, 1911-13, 1921-30; Netherlands, 1931-34. Lutheran. Died, of heart disease, in a hospital at Oslo, Norway, November 3, 1947 (age 82 years, 144 days). Interment at Norseland Lutheran Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Swen Swenson; brother of Carl Ludvig Swenson and Oscar Adolph Swenson; nephew of Lars Swenson.   Political family: Swenson family of Minnesota.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary Oscar Adolph Swenson (1877-1951) — also known as Oscar A. Swenson — of Nicollet, Nicollet County, Minn. Born in Nicollet County, Minn., March 27, 1877. Republican. Farmer; secretary-manager of New Sweden Creamery Association; member of Minnesota state house of representatives, 1913-28 (District 20 1913-14, District 15 1915-28); Speaker of the Minnesota State House of Representatives, 1931; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1928; member of Minnesota state senate 15th District, 1937-49. Died in 1951 (age about 74 years). Interment at Norseland Lutheran Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Swen Swenson; brother of Lauritz Selmer Swenson and Carl Ludvig Swenson; nephew of Lars Swenson.   Political family: Swenson family of Minnesota.   Image source: Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917   Swen Swenson (1836-1905) — of Nicollet County, Minn. Born in Hol, Hallingdal, Norway, November 29, 1836. Member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 17, 1887. Died in New Sweden, Nicollet County, Minn., March 4, 1905 (age 68 years, 95 days). Interment at Norseland Lutheran Cemetery.   Relatives: Brother of Lars Swenson; father of Lauritz Selmer Swenson, Carl Ludvig Swenson and Oscar Adolph Swenson.   Political family: Swenson family of Minnesota. Skandian Grove Cemetery Norseland, Nicollet County, Minnesota Politicians buried here:   Andrew Nelson (1837-1921) — of Lake Prairie Township, Nicollet County, Minn. Born in Kristianstad, Sweden, July 12, 1837. Farmer; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 34, 1876. Swedish ancestry. Died in St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minn., November 3, 1921 (age 84 years, 114 days). Interment at Skandian Grove Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Elna Anderson and Nels Anderson.   See also Minnesota Legislator record Calvary Cemetery St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota Politicians buried here:   Andrew Cook (1875-1944) — of St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minn. Born in 1875. Mayor of St. Peter, Minn., 1944; died in office 1944. Died October 17, 1944 (age about 69 years). Interment at Calvary Cemetery.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Greenhill Cemetery St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota Politicians buried here:   John Albert Johnson (1861-1909) — also known as Albert Johnson — of St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minn. Born in a log cabin, near St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minn., July 28, 1861. Democrat. Candidate for Minnesota state house of representatives District 17, 1888; member of Minnesota state senate 20th District, 1899-1902; Governor of Minnesota, 1905-09; died in office 1909; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1908. Presbyterian. Swedish ancestry. Member, Elks; Woodmen. Died in Rochester, Olmsted County, Minn., September 20, 1909 (age 48 years, 54 days). Interment at Greenhill Cemetery; statue at State Capitol Grounds, St. Paul, Minn.; statue at Nicollet County Courthouse Grounds.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Minnesota Legislator record   Ansgar Laurentius Almen (1887-1963) — also known as A. L. Almen — of Minnesota. Born in New London, Kandiyohi County, Minn., March 8, 1887. Member of Minnesota state senate 13th District, 1935-54. Swedish ancestry. Died November 19, 1963 (age 76 years, 256 days). Interment at Greenhill Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Lars Gustav Almen and Elizabeth Christina (Johnson) Almen.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial — Minnesota Legislator record Nicollet County Courthouse Grounds St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:   John Albert Johnson (1861-1909) — also known as Albert Johnson — of St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minn. Born in a log cabin, near St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minn., July 28, 1861. Democrat. Candidate for Minnesota state house of representatives District 17, 1888; member of Minnesota state senate 20th District, 1899-1902; Governor of Minnesota, 1905-09; died in office 1909; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1908. Presbyterian. Swedish ancestry. Member, Elks; Woodmen. Died in Rochester, Olmsted County, Minn., September 20, 1909 (age 48 years, 54 days). Interment at Greenhill Cemetery; statue at State Capitol Grounds, St. Paul, Minn.; statue at Nicollet County Courthouse Grounds.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Minnesota Legislator record

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/NI-buried.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
What is a "political graveyard"? See Political Dictionary; Urban Dictionary.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDLmi.com. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025.