Word: knute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration lost a supporter in the Senate with the death of Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota. They hoped to regain the lost seat by having Governor Preus of that state resign and be given a Senatorial appointment by his successor, the present lieutenant governor. In fact, it was erroneously reported that this had happened. It seems, however, that the lieutenant governor balked at the role assigned...
Since the death of Knute Nelson, Carroll A. Page of Vermont has been the only octogenarian in the Senate. His colleague from Vermont?William P. Dillingham?will enter the eighties in December...
...Preus, who quit the governorship of Minnesota to take the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Knute Nelson, will not be 40 until August. His colleague, Hendrik Shipstead, elected last Fall, is not yet 42. Politically the two have nothing in common. Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, ranks as a "radical"; Preus is a conservative Republican...
...oldest man in the Senate, a man who had never been defeated in an election, the " grand old man," the "Norseman," the "Viking," or?as he liked best to be called" Farmer Nelson " died aboard a Pennsylvania Railroad train on April 28; Senator Knute Nelson, 80 years of age, and senior Senator from Minnesota fell dead of heart disease as he was going from Washington to his home in Alexandria, Minn...