Robert J. Tennessen papers. 1969-1997.

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Robert J. Tennessen papers. 1969-1997.

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Papers documenting Tennessen's career as a DFL Minnesota state senator; a director of the Washington Federal Savings Bank, Stillwater; a committee member of the Basilica of Saint Mary, Tyrone Guthrie Theatre Foundation, Minnesota Constitutional Study Commission, and the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control; a trustee of Groves Learning Center, St. Louis Park; and as one of the principal advocates of data privacy legislation in the Minnesota legislature.

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Tennessen, Robert J., 1931-.

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Robert Tennessen was born August 24, 1939 in Lismore, Minnesota. After serving in the U.S. Air Force (1957-1961), he attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a B.A. (economics, 1965) and a law degree (1968). He was elected to the Minnesota Legislature in 1970 as a Democratic-Farmer-Labor senator from Minneapolis district 56. Tennessen served on the Commerce (chair), Finance, Judiciary, and Rules and Administration committees, and chaired the Judiciary subcommittee on Privacy Rights ...

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Minnesota Constitutional Study Commission

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED In 1971 the American Bar Association formed a committee to prepare a study "...on the respective powers under the Constitution of the President and of the Congress to enter into and conduct war." The committee was chaired by Lyman M. Tondel, Jr. and the project was funded by the Association's Fund for Public Education which in turn contracted with Columbia University to carry out the study. The staff included Abraham D. Sofaer, Project Director and Adjunct Professor of Law at C...

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Washington Federal Savings Bank (Stillwater, Minn.).

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Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

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Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was officially formed on April 15, 1944, the result of a merger of the existing Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. Although the two entities had competed vigorously throughout their pasts, they had been brought into closer harmony through their mutual support of New Deal programs, through Popular Front collaborations during World War II, and through a realistic acceptance of the fact that they were effectively splitting the s...