biography
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| lived:
| (1871–1936)
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| biography:
| Agrarian reformer, US senator and representative, born near Kalstad, Sweden. Emigrating to Wisconsin (1891), he settled in Minnesota (1894) and took up farming. Active in the farmers' co-operative movement, as a Farmer Labor Party candidate he served in the Minnesota legislature, in the US Senate (1923–5), and in the House of Representatives (1933–5). |
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