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Minnesota elected Humphrey to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, unseating incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball with 60 % of the vote, and he took office on January 3, 1949.
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Had the Brewers elected not to move to the National League, the Minnesota Twins would have been offered the opportunity next.
Putnam was elected city librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library at that time and served while simultaneously being admitted to the Minnesota bar of Law.
Stassen had been elected governor of Minnesota at the age of 31 ; he resigned as governor in 1943 to serve in the wartime Navy.
He was the first Democrat elected senator from the state of Minnesota since before the Civil War.
Legally and by treaty a semi-autonomous " nation " within the United States, the Lakota Sioux are represented locally by officials elected to councils for the several reservations and communities in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska.
Like all counties in Minnesota, Hennepin is governed by an elected and nonpartisan board of commissioners.
One of the few persons to have been elected to Congress from two different states: Minnesota and, later, New York.
In 1976, Clarence Guetzkow was elected to the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame in recognition of his tireless allegiance to Mayer Baseball, the Crow River Valley League, and Minnesota Amateur Baseball as a whole.
After buying the land and platting the town, he was elected to the Minnesota State Legistature, served in several appointed positions and in 1856 was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota as Immigration officer for the 14th District of Minnesota.
After approval by the Minnesota Legisture officers were elected to the First Village Council of Peterson a follows: President N. J. Amble, Elmer Halvorson, Assessor Carl Johnson, Carl Johnson, Clerk and trustees Claus Ensberg, Carl Moen, N. J. Smaby and justices C. J.
U. S. Route 59 and Minnesota State Highway 11 are two of the main arterial routes in the city. The current mayor is Nick Amb ( elected 2006 ).
* Jim Vickerman ( born 1931 ) long-time Minnesota State Senator, first elected in 1986, chaired the Senate's State and Local Government Operations, Rules and Administration, and Agriculture, Veterans and Gaming committees before retiring in 2011.
In 1962, he was elected to the Minnesota Senate, representing the old 63rd District, which included portions of St. Louis County in the northeastern part of the state.
In 1970, Perpich was elected the 39th lieutenant governor of Minnesota.
Other entertainers who have traveled to the Middle East to perform include Al Franken ( who made six USO tours in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan before being elected a United States Senator from Minnesota ), Craig Ferguson, Gary Sinise, Zac Brown, Jessica Simpson, Carrie Underwood, Drowning Pool, Toby Keith,
Since a 1958 amendment to the Minnesota Constitution governors are elected to four-year terms.
Carlson was elected the 37th Governor of Minnesota in the November 1990 general election, and served from January 7, 1991 – January 4, 1999.
Pawlenty was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1992, winning 49. 1 percent of the vote in District 38B ( suburban Dakota County ).
Quie ran for and was elected governor of Minnesota in 1978.
After opening a law office with Elmer J. Ryan in South St. Paul that year, he was elected District Attorney of Dakota County in 1930 and 1934, then elected Governor of Minnesota in 1938.
Minnesota and Humphrey
In 1982, the Twins moved into the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which they shared with the Minnesota Vikings, but the team continued to struggle.
The game was played on January 26, 1992 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the first time the Super Bowl was held in that city.
* August 24 – 27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U. S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.
* Hubert Humphrey, U. S. senator from Minnesota.
Image: HubertHumphrey. png | Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota
The major candidates for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination were Kennedy, Governor Pat Brown of California, Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.
Kennedy first challenged Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey in the Wisconsin primary, and defeated him.
Both Kennedy and Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota had been running against the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip.
Because of the family's financial struggles, Humphrey had to leave the University of Minnesota after just one year to help his father in the new drugstore.
In 1944, Humphrey was one of the key players in the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties of Minnesota to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ( DFL ).
When in 1945 Minnesota Communists tried to seize control of the new party, Humphrey became an engaged anti-Communist and led the successful fight to oust the Communists from the DFL.
Humphrey was a Willkie Republican in 1940, but during the postwar mop-up, when old American radicals were kicked out of a newly war-enamored Left, Humphrey busily extirpated Bryanism from the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party so that the populist FL might merge with the Trumanite hawks of the Democratic Party.
“ A Republican less than five years earlier ,” scientist Jeff Taylor notes of HHH in 1947, “ he was now reading lifelong Farmer-Laborites out of the party .” The Humphrey fusionists vanquished “ the traditional agrarian populists within the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party .”
During the period of McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ), Humphrey was accused of being " soft on Communism ", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere.
At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson kept the three likely vice presidential candidates, Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, fellow Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, and Humphrey, as well as the rest of the nation in suspense before announcing Humphrey as his running-mate with much fanfare, praising Humphrey's qualifications for a considerable amount of time before announcing his name.
After leaving the Vice-Presidency, Humphrey used his talents by teaching at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota, and by serving as chairman of board of consultants at the Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
* The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome domed stadium in Minneapolis and home to the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League
* The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and its building, the Hubert H. Humphrey Center ( formerly Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs ; changed in January 2011 )
Minnesota and United
The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.
A strong and prominent a cappella tradition was begun in the midwest part of the United States in 1911 by F. Melius Christiansen, a music faculty member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Their range covers the southeastern quadrant of the United States from the Great Lakes and southern Minnesota east to Pennsylvania and southern Massachusetts, and extending west to southern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and all but westernmost Texas.
* Cyrus, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States.
Several races across the United States routinely draw several thousand attendees, including races in Buda, Texas ; Davis, California ; Phoenix, Arizona ; Los Alamitos, California ; Findlay, Ohio ; Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ; Kansas City, Kansas ; Palo Alto, California ; and Shakopee, Minnesota.
* Gary, Minnesota, United States
* Gary – New Duluth, neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota, United States
He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).
* Duluth, Minnesota, United States
* Kennedy, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States
* Mayo Clinic, a medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
* Mayo High School, a public high school in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
* Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, United States
The family returned to the United States after the outbreak of World War II, settling eventually on a Minnesota farm.
At present, a significant number of cases are pending before the United States District Court, District of Minnesota, involving the drug Levaquin.
* 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.
These programs currently exist in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island in the United States.
Minnesota was the first state to have a charter school law and the first charter school in the United States, City Academy High School, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992.
Minnesota was the first state to have a charter school law and the first charter school in the United States, City Academy, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992.
* Many landmarks in the United States, including the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, and the Mall of America outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The term Twin Cities in the United States refers specifically to the cities Minneapolis and Saint Paul, both of which are in the midwestern state of Minnesota.
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