Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins, is one of the outstanding tourist spots in Minnesota.

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including: The District of Columbia ; the City of Austin, Texas ; Dane County, Wisconsin ; Washington State ; and several municipalities in Minnesota.

* Sommer, Barbara W. "' We Had This Opportunity ': African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota " in The State We're In: Reflections on Minnesota History, Annette Atkins and Deborah L. Millers, eds.

* NARA film: The Cradle of the Father of Waters, 1938 Minnesota State Parks, Lake Itasca State Park

* Minnesota State University, Mankato Masters Degree in Experiential Education

* Minnesota, the " Gopher State "

* Minnesota State Park Geocaching Challenge

The Minnesota State Bar Association has now made available to anyone their GnuCash trust accounting guide in PDF format.

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*** State of Minnesota, 1858

* 1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U. S. State.

In 1966, they moved their training camp to Minnesota State University in Mankato, where it remains to this day.

* 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, " Speak softly and carry a big stick " at the Minnesota State Fair.

On September 2, 1901, at the Minnesota State Fair, Roosevelt first used in a public speech a saying that would later be universally associated with him: " Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.

Boreal forest near Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park, along the northern shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.

For this reason in Michigan, Minnesota and New York it is illegal to pick and / or transplant trilliums from public lands without a permit from the State.

* September 2 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, " Speak softly and carry a big stick " at the Minnesota State Fair.

Sousa wrote marches for several American universities, including University of Illinois, University of Nebraska, Kansas State University, Marquette University, and University of Minnesota.

Saint Paul is served by the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport ( MSP ), which sits on southwest of the city on the west side of the Mississippi River between Minnesota State Highway 5, Interstate 494, Minnesota State Highway 77, and Minnesota State Highway 62.

He persuaded Virginia to give up its claims to northwestern territories — consisting of most of modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota — to the Continental Congress.

Gilbert's drawings and correspondence are preserved at the New-York Historical Society, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Library of Congress.

One of the few persons to have been elected to Congress from two different states: Minnesota and, later, New York.

On May 11, 1858 as Congress was admitting Minnesota into the Union, the early residents of Richfield had their first town meeting.

Albany is part of Minnesota's 6th congressional district currently represented in Federal Congress by ( R ) Representative Michele Bachmann and Minnesota Senators ( D ) Amy Klobuchar and ( D ) Al Franken.

Due to the unrest among Native Americans of the Red River Valley after the American Civil War, the Minnesota Legislature petitioned Congress to build a fort, especially to defend against incursions by the Lakota ( Sioux ), some of whom had migrated to Canada to evade the US Army.

Redwood Falls is home to the Minnesota Inventors Congress.

In addition, UCF graduates have held leadership positions in the United States Congress, United States Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Protection Agency, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, Orlando Magic, NOAA, and Bright House Networks to name just a few.

* Late June: Congress enlarged Michigan Territory to encompass Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the eastern parts of North and South Dakota.

Eugene Joseph " Gene " McCarthy ( March 29, 1916December 10, 2005 ) was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota.

Humphrey was appointed as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party by Rudy Perpich, the governor of Minnesota, to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of her husband, and served from January 25, 1978 to November 7, 1978 in the 95th Congress.

She was the first spouse of a former Vice President to serve in Congress as well as the first woman to represent Minnesota in the U. S. Senate.

As a result of the 1880 census, the United States Congress decided to allocate one new congressional seat to the Upper Country, creating the Fifth Minnesota District.

In keeping with practices of the Gilded Age, Nelson's first agenda item in Congress was to ensure patronage for his supporters in Minnesota by doling out the limited number of federal appointments available.

His influence in the 30th Congress included causing a part of Wisconsin and a tract west of the Mississippi River to be separated as the Territory of Minnesota.

He served as Governor from July 10, 1863 to January 11, 1864 after serving as the third Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota when Governor Alexander Ramsey resigned to enter the United States Congress.

* SAMUEL RINNAH VAN SANT FIFTEENTH GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA January 7, 1901, to January 4, 1905. via Lives of the governors of Minnesota, Library of Congress.

" Many organizations sent resolutions to Congress calling for his expulsion, including the influential Minnesota Public Safety Commission presentation made to the Senate on September 29, 1917.

His work on the Minnesota Enabling Act, passed by Congress on Feb. 26, 1857, facilitated Minnesota's statehood.

In 1932, a bill introduced to the U. S. Congress proposed, among other roads, a route from Duluth, Minnesota, to Laredo, Texas, to connect with the Pan-American Highway in Mexico ; this route probably followed today's Interstate 35.

Similar practices exist in the state legislatures, and for similar reasons ; for example, in Minnesota, legislative bodies have the same every-three-days meeting requirement that Congress has.

She is the second woman elected to Congress from Minnesota.

She is the first Minnesota woman elected to Congress since Coya Knutson in the 1950s.

Sabo was considered to be the most liberal member of the Minnesota delegation in the 109th Congress, scoring 4 % conservative by a conservative group and 90 % progressive by a liberal group.