biography
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Olson, Floyd (Bjerstjerne)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1891–1936)
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| biography:
| US governor, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Born in the slums, he became a Minneapolis trial lawyer (1914), serving as county attorney in the 1920s. As Farmer-Labor Party governor (Minnesota, 1931–6), he secured money for unemployment relief measures and issued a two-year moratorium on farm foreclosures, despite a conservative Republican legislature. |
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