Arthur E. Nelson

Arthur Emanuel Nelson

Arthur Emanuel Nelson (* 10. May 1892 in Browns Valley , Minnesota ; †  11. April 1955 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the State of Minnesota for a short time in the Senate represented.

After attending public schools in his home country, Nelson first studied at Macalester College in Saint Paul from 1910 to 1912 ; he then moved to the College of Law in the same city. In 1915 he was inducted into the Minnesota Bar Association and began practicing in Saint Paul. During the First World War he served from August to November 1918 with the rank of private in the artillery of the US Army .

After returning from the war, he was employed by the city of Saint Paul as its corporation counsel ; In 1922 he was elected mayor there. He held this office until 1926. Two years later he unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the US Senate for the first time. In 1936 he was a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Minnesota. As a result Nelson worked again as a lawyer; In 1939 he joined the Illinois Bar Association.

In the end, he became a US Senator for two months. Joseph H. Ball , who was appointed as his successor after Ernest Lundeen's death in August 1940, decided not to participate in the by-election on November 3, 1942, but won the election for the following legislative period on the same day. Nelson prevailed in the almost insignificant by-election with 56 percent of the votes against Al Hansen from the Farmer Labor Party and then entered Congress on November 18 . He held his mandate there until January 3, 1943, when he was replaced by Ball. As a result, he worked again as a lawyer in Saint Paul and Chicago.

Web links

• Arthur E. Nelson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Arthur E. Nelson in the database of Find a Grave (English)