Halvor Steenerson

Halvor Steenerson

Halvor Steenerson (born June 30, 1852 in Madison , Wisconsin , †  November 22, 1926 in Crookston , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1923 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1853, Steenerson and his parents moved to Sheldon , Houston County , Minnesota. There he attended public schools and then high school in Rushford . After a subsequent law degree at the Union College of Law in Chicago and his admission to the bar in 1878, he began to work in his new profession in Lanesboro . In 1880 Steenerson moved to Crookston. Between 1881 and 1883 he was a district attorney in Polk County . He also became the legal representative of the Crookston Ward.

Steenerson was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1883 and 1887 he was a member of the Minnesota Senate . In 1884 and 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions . In the congressional elections of 1902 Steenerson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the newly created ninth constituency of Minnesota , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1903. After nine re-elections, he was able to complete ten consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1923 . During this time the First World War fell . In addition, the 16th , 17th , 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were passed. From 1907 to 1911 Steenerson was chairman of the Committee on Militia . He was also a member of the Postal Committee from 1919 to 1923.

In the 1922 elections, Steenerson lost to Knud Wefald from the Farmer-Labor Party . After his time in the US House of Representatives, he became Vice President of the American section of the Inter-Parliamentary Union . Otherwise he worked again as a lawyer in Crookston. He died there in November 1926.

Web links

• Halvor Steenerson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Halvor Steenerson in the database of Find a Grave (English)