Bernhard LeVander Papers, 1937-1981 (bulk 1941-1952).

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Bernhard LeVander Papers, 1937-1981 (bulk 1941-1952).

Newspaper clippings, correspondence and memoranda, speeches, and other papers of a Twin Cities attorney and associate of Minnesota governor Harold Stassen, who also served as director of the Minnesota Division of Social Welfare (1943) and as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee (1946-1950). Much of the material relates to Stassen's campaigns for governor and for president of the United States. Bernhard LeVander was the younger brother of Minnesota governor Harold LeVander.

1.0 cu. ft. (1 box).

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Minnesota

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Stassen, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1907-2001

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Lawyer; governor. From the description of Reminiscences of Harold Edward Stassen : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513413 American politician. From the description of Letter, 1945 April 30, San Francisco, to Helen M. Taft, Mendon, Mass. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953452 Stassen was born in Minnesota in 1907. His political career began in 1930 when he was elected as Dakota County at...

Republican National Convention (1952 : Chicago, Ill.).

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LeVander, Bernhard, 1916-

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Bernhard Wilhelm LeVander was born in St. Paul on March 9, 1916. He was the son of Magni and Laura (Lovene) LeVander. The elder LeVander was a Lutheran pastor. His older brother Harold (b.1910), also an attorney, served as governor of Minnesota (1967-1971). Another older brother, Ted, was a speech teacher at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Bernhard married Dagne E. Anderson of Grantsburg, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1939. The couple had two children, Kirsten Mary and Peter A...

Republican Party (Minn.)

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Minnesota. Division of Social Welfare

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The federal Social Security Act of 1939 required state units of government to establish personnel standards on a merit basis for the employees of agencies concerned with old age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and a number of other social services, as a condition to receive federal grants-in-aid. On January 1, 1940, the Social Security Board ruled that no local government could receive federal funds unless it had made moves to install a merit system for those agencies an...

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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The Republican Party is a national political party in the United States, and was founded in 1854. In the 1864 election, the party took the name National Union Party to allow the participation of Democrats. From the description of Republican Party tickets, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 496362231 From the guide to the Republican Party tickets, 1864, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Republican Party (Minn.). State Central Committee.

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