Karl Earl Mundt

Karl E. Mundt (* 3. June 1900 in Humboldt , Minnehaha County , South Dakota ; † 16th August 1974 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ), of the state of South Dakota in both houses of Congress represented .

Karl Mundt made his 1923 College Accounts in Northfield ( Minnesota ). He then worked as a teacher at a high school in Bryant and in 1924 became a school councilor in this city. After graduating from Columbia University in 1927 , he taught at State Teachers College in Madison until 1936 .

Mundt held his first political office from 1931 to 1937 as a member of the state gaming and fishing commission. From 1939 to 1948 he then represented the first constituency of South Dakota in the United States House of Representatives . On December 30, 1948, he resigned to fill the vacant seat of Vera C. Bushfield in the United States Senate . Mundt exercised this mandate from December 31, 1948 to January 3, 1973, before he no longer ran for re-election. He died in Washington the year after he left Congress .

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SURNAME	Mundt, Karl Earl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Humboldt , South Dakota
DATE OF DEATH	August 16, 1974
Place of death	Washington, DC