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Family & Early Years: His father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother came to the U.S. from Germany when she was six years old. Harold, one of five children, was born April 13, 1907, at West St. Paul, Minn., where his father ran a 40-acre truck farm. He grew up on the farm, worked as a grocery clerk, bakery pan greaser and Pullman conductor to pay his way through the University of Minnesota, graduated from the law school with above-average marks in 1929 at the age of 22. The same year...
Career: Just out of law school, he ran for Dakota (Minn.) county attorney in 1929, was laid low by tuberculosis, campaigned from a sanatorium, won the election. He was fully recovered by the time he took office in 1930, served two four-year terms. In 1938, at 31, he was elected governor of Minnesota, was re-elected twice. In four years he turned a $39 million deficit into a $3,000,000 surplus, cut yearly expenses from $105 million to $92 million, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost 50%, created...
Mama's Boy. In Fairmont, Minn., while celebrating Mrs. Carl Kraft's 100th birthday, her 60-year-old son told friends : "When she gets my breakfast for me that's fine, and as long as she insists on doing her own housecleaning I'll let her, but when she tries to iron for more than an hour and a half, I put my foot down...
...offenders: Ala.--1C 48788; Cal.--1C 58783, 7B 74548; Col.--11-266-33; Conn.--SI 640; Delaware--126288; District of Columbia--J4437; Ill.--289790, 972534, 1505796, 1901083, 1970376, 2317057; La.--404247, 483948; Me.--443, 217532; Md.--322339, Mich.--DK 6516; Minn.--103987; Mo.--K40827, 314064; N. J.--HB 65 T, EA 96 A. NJ 206, KI 603; PM 691, EG 1785, HH 1900, CB 5802; N.M.--8-208; N.Y.--CP 244, CO 309, 4V 2201, KB 2207, CW 3315, 6C 3842, 6W 6062, RG 6353, 2V 8369, PW 9032, SUB-112508; Ohio--T888, CU 1226, H4082...
...Kasson, Minn., Ike scored the "agricrats," came...