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Kittel Halvorson (born December 15, 1846 in Telemark , Norway , †  July 12, 1936 in Havana , North Dakota ) was an American politician . Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Kittel Halvorson came to the United States with his parents as a toddler. The family initially settled in Wisconsin . There the boy attended public schools in the Town of Winchester . Between 1863 and 1865, Halvorson served as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War . In November 1865 he moved to Stearns County , Minnesota. There he dealt with livestock and other agricultural activities. Between 1870 and 1875 he worked as a justice of the peace. From 1870 to 1891 Halvorson held several local offices in Belgrade .

Politically, Halvorson was a member of the short-lived Populist Party . Between 1886 and 1888 he was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1890 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Solomon Comstock on March 4, 1891 . Since he already lost to Loren Fletcher of the Republican Party in the next election , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1893 .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Halvorson returned to farming. Between 1900 and 1910 he lived and worked in Sargent County , North Dakota. Then he returned to Minnesota, where he worked as a farmer in North Fork until 1924 . After that, he retired. He died on July 12, 1936 in Havana, North Dakota.

Web links

  • Kittel Halvorson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)