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Accountant Politicians in Minnesota

John W. Boock (1881-1960) — of New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.; Gibbon, Sibley County, Minn. Born in Lafayette Township, Nicollet County, Minn., January 19, 1881. Bookkeeper; banker; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 15, 1917-18. Died April 3, 1960 (age 79 years, 75 days). Interment at St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Meriden, Minn.   Relatives: Son of John H. Boock and Marie (Kiehn) Boock; married, May 5, 1909, to Willa Naegeli.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial — Minnesota Legislator record   Image source: Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917   John A. Johnson (b. 1883) — of Hancock, Stevens County, Minn.; Preston, Fillmore County, Minn. Born in Litchfield, Meeker County, Minn., July 9, 1883. Bookkeeper; grain elevator manager; hardware store owner; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 1, 1921-30, 1939-48; Speaker of the Minnesota State House of Representatives, 1925-26; member of Minnesota state senate 1st District, 1949-58; defeated, 1958. Burial location unknown.   See also Minnesota Legislator record   Collin Clark Peterson (b. 1944) — also known as Collin C. Peterson — of Detroit Lakes, Becker County, Minn. Born in Fargo, Cass County, N.Dak., June 29, 1944. Democrat. Accountant; member of Minnesota state senate, 1977-86; U.S. Representative from Minnesota 7th District, 1991-; defeated (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), 1984, 1986; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008. Lutheran. Still living as of 2014.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier George L. Siegel — of Ramsey County, Minn. Born in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Accountant; lawyer; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 41, 1917-18; member of Minnesota state senate 41st District; elected unopposed 1934; elected 1942; defeated, 1958. Burial location unknown.   Image source: Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917   Maurice Hubert Stans (1908-1998) — also known as Maurice H. Stans — of Washington, D.C. Born in Shakopee, Scott County, Minn., March 22, 1908. Accountant; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1969-72. Catholic. Indicted in 1973, along with John N. Mitchell, for perjury and obstruction over a contribution from fugitive financier Robert Vesco to President Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign; tried and acquitted; later pleaded guilty to five violations of campaign finance laws and paid a fine of $5,000. Suffered a heart attack, and died five days later, at Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif., April 14, 1998 (age 90 years, 23 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of J. Hubert Stans and Mathilda (Nyssen) Stans; married, September 7, 1933, to Kathleen Carmody.   Cross-reference: Harry L. Sears   See also NNDB dossier Alexander Wild Thornely (1845-1908) — also known as Alexander W. Thornely; John Alexander Wylde Thornely — of La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wis.; Long Prairie, Todd County, Minn.; Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash. Born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, March, 1845. Naturalized U.S. citizen; bookkeeper; feed and grain business; customs broker; secretary, Crescent Coal Company; Vice-Consul for Mexico in Tacoma, Wash., 1906-08. English ancestry. Shot in the head by two robbers, and died four days later in Fannie Paddock Hospital, Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash., January 24, 1908 (age 62 years, 0 days). Interment at Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.   Relatives: Son of Sarah (Roberts) Thornely and Robert Thornely; married, September 6, 1881, to Louise Lavinia Hinkley.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Tacoma News Tribune, January 21, 1908 Harry P. Van Guilder (1890-1979) — of Ashland, Ashland County, Wis. Born in Cannon Falls, Goodhue County, Minn., July 6, 1890. Progressive. Bookkeeper; railroad switchman; president of his union local, 10 years; member of Wisconsin state assembly from Ashland County, 1937-42; defeated, 1942; candidate for U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 10th District, 1944. Member, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Died in November, 1979 (age 89 years, 0 days). Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Ashland, Wis.   Relatives: Married to Marie Eileen 'May' Habelt.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1940   Lawrence Walter von Hellens (b. 1903) — also known as Lawrence W. von Hellens — of Seattle, King County, Wash. Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn., June 17, 1903. Accountant; U.S. Vice Consul in Helsingfors, 1937-39; Stockholm, as of 1943. Burial location unknown.

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