Word: monrad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Monrad Charles ("Mon") Wallgren, 70, soft-spoken New Deal Democrat from Washington State, a onetime jeweler and U.S. amateur billiards champion who rose successively to Congressman (1932-1940), Senator (1940-44) and Governor (1944-48), went into political eclipse after he lost the 1948 gubernatorial race, was rejected by the Senate when Harry Truman nominated him to the National Security Resources Board in 1949 but finally won confirmation as a member of the Federal Power Commission; as a consequence of injuries suffered in an auto accident in July; in Olympia, Wash...