Knud Wefald

Knud Wefald (1923)

Knud Wefald (born November 3, 1869 in Kragerø , Norway , †  October 25, 1936 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1927 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Knud Wefald attended the public schools in his Norwegian homeland. He came to the United States in 1887. Since 1896 he lived in the Hawley Ward , Clay County , Minnesota. There he worked in agriculture. He was also a manager and partner in a company in the wood industry. Wefald became a member of the Hawley parish council, chairing it several times between 1907 and 1918. From 1913 to 1915, Wefald was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives .

In the 1922 congressional election, he was elected as a candidate for the Farmer Labor Party in the ninth constituency of Minnesota to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Halvor Steenerson on March 4, 1923 . After a re-election in 1924, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1927 . In the elections of 1926 he was defeated by the Republican Conrad Selvig .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Wefald resumed his previous activities. Between 1929 and 1931 he published a newspaper in Fargo ( North Dakota ) in Norwegian. In 1931 and 1932, Wefald was a secretary on the Minnesota Treasury Board. From January 1933 until his death, he served as Minnesota State Railroad Commissioner. Knud Wefald died on October 25, 1936 in Saint Paul and was buried in Hawley.

Web links

• Knud Wefald in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Knud Wefald in the database of Find a Grave (English)