Tomorrow is a day : A story of the people in politics. [1967?].

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Tomorrow is a day : A story of the people in politics. [1967?].

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Draft of a book (Chicago: Vanguard Books, 1980) on politics and democracy using Minnesota as a case study. Beecher, a laborer, writer, poet, teacher, and New Deal public servant, surveyed Minnesota politicians and their associates before 1930 and focused on Farmer-Labor party governors Floyd B. Olson, Hjalmar Petersen, and Elmer A. Benson.

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Benson, Elmer Austin, 1895-1985

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Benson was appointed state commissioner of securities by Governor Floyd B. Olson in 1933 and commissioner of banks later the same year. In 1935 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill an unexpired term and served until 1936. He was elected governor of Minnesota in 1936 but was defeated for reelection in 1938. From the description of Oral history interview with Elmer A. Benson, 1969 March 28. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 45441449 ...

Beecher, John, 1904-

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Born in New York City in 1904, a great-great-nephew of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Beecher moved to Alabama at the age of three. He graduated from high school at fourteen, and was working twelve-hour days in a Birmingham steel mill at age sixteen. Beecher studied engineering, sociology, and literature at Virginia Military Institute and the universities of Alabama, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, as well as at Cornell, Harvard, and the Sorbonne. He w...

Farmer-Labor Party (Minn.)

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Olson, Floyd Björnstjerne, 1891-1936

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Petersen, Hjalmar, 1890-1968

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Hjalmar Petersen was born on January 2, 1890, in Eskildstrup, Denmark, near Svendborg. He migrated to Chicago, Illinois, with his parents, Lauritz and Anna Petersen, in 1891. He was naturalized through his father's papers. Petersen spent his childhood on a farm in Lincoln County, Minnesota, and in the village of Tyler. His education consisted of grammar school, and what he often referred to as "the school of experience." At age 14 he took his first job, working for the Tyler Journal...