Henrik Shipstead

Henrik Shipstead

Henrik Shipstead (born January 8, 1881 in Burbank Township , Kandiyohi County , Minnesota , † June 26, 1960 in Alexandria , Minnesota) was an American politician.

Shipstead graduated from Northwestern University , Chicago ; where he graduated in dentistry in 1903 . From 1904 to 1920 he was a practicing dentist in Glenwood , of which he was mayor from 1911 to 1913. He was an elected MP in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1917 and 1918 . In 1920 he moved to Minneapolis , where he continued to work as a dentist. After unsuccessful elections to the United States Congress in 1918 and the election to governor of Minnesota in 1920, he was elected to the U.S. Senate for the Minnesota Peasants and Workers Party in 1922 and served from March 23, 1923 through May 3 January 1947 US Senator for the state of Minnesota.

At the end of the 1930s he left the Peasants and Workers' Party because, in his opinion, it had been infiltrated by communists. In the 1940 elections, he therefore ran for the Republican Party .

His political career ended after he voted against the United States joining the United Nations and was then no longer run as a Senate candidate by the Republicans.

Web links

Commons : Henrik Shipstead  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Henrik Shipstead in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Minnesota Legislators Past and Present Short biography on the Minnesota Parliament website