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Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was a Norwegian-born American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota.A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislatures and to the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota, and served as the 12th governor of ...
Knute Nelson, Incumbent U.S. Senator since 1895 James A. Peterson, Minneapolis attorney, former Hennepin County Attorney (1897–1899), former State Representative from the 42nd district (1901–1903), Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 1912 [ 1 ]
Knute Nelson is Minnesota's longest-serving senator (1895–1923). Minnesota is one of fifteen states alongside Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, South Dakota and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator.
The 1923 United States Senate special election in Minnesota took place on July 16, 1923. The election was held to fill, for the remainder of the unexpired term, the seat in the United States Senate left vacant by Republican U.S. Senator Knute Nelson, who died in office on April 28, 1923. State Senator Magnus Johnson of the Farmer–Labor Party ...
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.
Democratic. Elected Majority Leader. Henry Cabot Lodge. (Unofficial) Republican. The 1918 United States Senate elections were held throughout 1918, [ a] the midpoint of Woodrow Wilson 's second term as president. This was the first election since the ratification of the 17th Amendment that all 32 Class 2 senators were subject to direct or ...
Republican [33] 1886: Albert E. Rice: 11 William Rush Merriam (1849–1931) [62] [63] [64] January 9, 1889 [65] – January 4, 1893 (did not run) Republican [33] 1888: 1890: Gideon S. Ives: 12 Knute Nelson (1843–1923) [66] [67] [68] January 4, 1893 [69] – January 31, 1895 (resigned) [h] Republican [33] 1892: David Marston Clough: 1894: 13 ...
Elected Majority Party. Republican. The 1906–07 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1906 and 1907 ...