Elmer Carlson portrait, [undated]. [undated]
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Elmer Carlson was a farmer, agribusiness man and Democratic Party activist from Audubon, Iowa. In 1935 he won the National Corn-husking Championship in Indiana. He was a delegate to the 1952 and 1964 Democratic National Conventions, events he attended with a mule in order to call attention to Iowa's delegates. Carlson established a profitable hybrid seed corn company and at one time owned 1800 acres of land. He was enthusiastic about the election of Jimmy Carter because the U.S. president was a ...
