Conrad Selvig

Conrad Selvig

Conrad George Selvig (born October 11, 1877 in Rushford , Fillmore County , Minnesota , †  August 2, 1953 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1933 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Conrad Selvig attended his homeland public schools including Rushford High School , which he left in 1895. During the Spanish-American War of 1898 , Selvig served in a volunteer infantry unit from Minnesota. After the war he began a long career in school service. At first he taught at small village schools in his rural home. He was then from 1901 to 1910 school council in the parishes of Harmony and Glencoe . In the meantime he continued his education until 1907 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis . In 1910, Selvig was appointed director of agriculture at the University of Minnesota, based in Crookston . He was also the president of various organizations dealing with the problems of farmers and the development of agriculture.

Politically, Selvig was a member of the Republican Party , whose regional party congress in Minnesota he attended as a delegate in 1908. In the congressional elections of 1926 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Knud Wefald on March 4, 1927 . After a re-election in 1928, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1933 . Shortly before the end of his last term of office, the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed, which shortened the time between the congressional or presidential elections and the respective assumption of office.

In the 1932 elections Selvig lost to Francis Shoemaker of the Farmer-Labor Party . After retiring from the House of Representatives, he moved to Santa Monica, California in 1935. He became vice president of the National Hearing Society . Conrad Selvig died on August 2, 1953 in his new Californian hometown. He was buried in Crookston.

Web links

• Conrad Selvig in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Conrad Selvig in the database of Find a Grave (English)