Henry Teigan

Henry George Teigan (born August 7, 1881 in Forest City , Winnebago County , Iowa , †  March 12, 1941 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1939 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Teigan attended the public schools in his home country and then the Luther Academy in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and Central College in Pella, Iowa. He then studied until 1908 at Valparaiso University in Indiana . Between 1900 and 1913 he taught as a teacher at various schools in Iowa and North Dakota .

Teigan became a member of the Socialist Party and served as secretary on the party's executive committee in North Dakota from 1913 to 1916. In 1917 he moved to Minneapolis. There he became a member of the Nonpartisan League , whose secretary he served until 1923. Between 1923 and 1925, Henry Teigan was on the staff of US Senator Magnus Johnson . From 1923 to 1933, Teigan also worked as a journalist and newspaper editor. He was now a member of the Farmer-Labor Party founded in 1918 . This party campaigned for the rights of farmers and workers and merged with the Democratic Party in 1944 . Since then, the new party in Minnesota has been called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party .

Teigan served in the Minnesota Senate from 1933 to 1935 . In the 1936 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Minnesota . There he took over from Ernest Lundeen on January 3, 1937 . Since he was defeated by Republican John G. Alexander in the 1938 elections, he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1939 . During this time, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In 1940, Teigan ran unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He worked as a journalist and editor in Minneapolis until his death. Henry Teigan died on March 12, 1941 in Minneapolis and was buried there.

Web links

• Henry Teigan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Teigan in the database of Find a Grave (English)