biography
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| (1880–1953)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Skien, Norway. Emigrating at age six, he grew up on a Minnesota dairy farm, which he left to become a newspaperman and publisher of the Pioneer Journal. An isolationist congressman (Republican, Minnesota, 1917–49), he opposed the New Deal and launched personal attacks on President Franklin Roosevelt. A member of the National Committee to Keep America Out of War in the 1940s, he opposed the war effort and the Marshall Plan. |
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