Oscar Larson

Oscar Larson

Oscar John Larson (born May 20, 1871 in Uleaborg , Finland , †  August 1, 1957 in Duluth , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1925 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1876, Oscar Larson came to the United States with his parents. The family settled in Calumet ( Michigan down). There he attended public schools. He then studied until 1891 at the Northern Indiana Normal School , now Valparaiso University . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission as a lawyer in 1894, he began to work in Calumet in his new profession. Between 1899 and 1904 he was a district attorney in Houghton County .

In 1907 Larson moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where he continued to work as a lawyer. In his new home he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1920 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded William Leighton Carss on March 4, 1921 . After re-election in 1922, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1925 .

In 1924, Larson declined to run again. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he withdrew from politics. In the following decades he worked again as a lawyer in Duluth. Oscar Larson died there on August 1, 1957.

Web links

• Oscar Larson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Oscar Larson in the database of Find a Grave (English)