Dee Long legislative papers, 1992-1998.

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Dee Long legislative papers, 1992-1998.

Legislative papers of Dee Long, DFL state representative (1978-1998) for district 60A in Minneapolis (Lowry Hill and Kenwood area) and first female Speaker of the House for the state of Minnesota (1992-1994), documenting her last three terms in office.

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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...

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Dee Long was born in April 1939, the daughter of a Minneapolis minister, and was educated at the University of Minnesota (B.A. and Ph.D. program in experimental psychology). She was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1978 to represent district 56B (later districts 59A and 60A) which comprises the Lowry Hill and Kenwood areas of southwest Minneapolis. Long served as majority leader from 1989 to 1992 and was elected Speaker of the House, the first female to hold this positi...

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