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...waythrough the dental school, opened a professional office at Glenwood, Minn, in 1904. After serving as the town's mayor, he was elected to the State House of Representatives for one term. Removing to Minneapolis he continued his dental practice until 1922 when he was nominated by the Farmer-Labor party, then on the rise, for the U. S. Senate, subsequently defeating Senator Frank Billings Kellogg, later Secretary of State. In 1928 he was re-elected for a second Senate term by a majority that exceeded Herbert Hoover's in Minnesota by 100,000 votes...
There might have been an end of the case of Davis & Michel but for the fact that Partner Thomas ("Tom") Davis was a stanch political friend of blind Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota's lone Republican Senator. (Senator-Dentist Henrik Shipstead is Farmer-Labor.) Lawyer Davis it was who argued and won Senator Schall's contest for his Senate seat in 1924. Last autumn eloquent "Tom" Davis, while supporting Farmer-Labor candidates otherwise, supported Republican Senator Schall for reelection. Mr. Schall won-and promptly, as he had publicly promised to do, recommended "Tom" Davis' partner, Ernest A. Michel...
Gold Miner. At St. Paul farmers ar.cl laborers gathered to watch Floyd B. Olson become the State's first Farmer-Labor Governor.? As the ruddy-faced young Governor with slicked-back hair was delivering his inaugural address inside the Capitol, a delegation of jobless assembled on the frozen lawn outside. Said Governor Olson: "An acute unemployment situation . . . duty of State to alleviate it . . . carrying on public works." The jobless silently retorted by unfurling a banner labeled: "The warehouses are full; we are empty." Afterwards Governor Olson received the delegation's leaders in his office, told them...
...Minnesota also has the first and only Farmer-Labor U. S. Senator, Dentist Henrik Shipstead...
House Organization. If the 217-217 House tie should by any remote possibility remain unbroken when that body meets next year, upon 34-year-old Farmer-Labor Representative Paul John Kvale of Benson, Minn, would fall a tremendous decision. He would be a sort of political traffic cop, for his all-important vote could put either Republican Longworth or Democrat Garner into the Speaker's automobile. War veteran, county newspaper editor, secretary to his late father, Representative Ole John Kvale who succeeded Andrew J. Volstead in the House only to be burned to death last year in a summer cottage...