Oscar Youngdahl

Oscar Ferdinand Youngdahl (born October 13, 1893 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , †  February 3, 1946 there ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1943 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Oscar Youngdahl attended public schools in his home country and then Hamline University in Saint Paul . He then graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter by 1916 . He then worked as a teacher at Ortonville High School . He also taught dramaturgy and rhetoric. During the First World War he served in the US Navy . From 1919 to 1925 Youngdahl sold stocks. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1925, he began to practice in Minneapolis in his new profession.

Politically, Youngdahl was a member of the Republican Party . In 1936 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General of Minnesota. In the 1938 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Dewey Johnson on January 3, 1939 . After re-election in 1940, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1943 . His last year in Congress was shaped by the events of World War II .

For the elections in 1942 Youngdahl was no longer nominated by his party for another term. He then worked again as a lawyer in Minneapolis until his death on February 3, 1946. His younger brother Luther (1896–1978) was governor of Minnesota from 1947 to 1951 .

Web links

• Oscar Youngdahl in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Oscar Youngdahl in the database of Find a Grave (English)