Knute Nelson

Knute Nelson
United States Senator from Minnesota
In office March 4, 1895 –April 28, 1923

In the Senate, Nelson was involved in creating the Department of Commerce and Labor and the 1898 passage of the Nelson Bankruptcy Act, and served on the Overman Committee from 1918 to 1919. Serving from 1895 to 1923, he was a senator from the 54th through the 67th congresses. ^[5] He was an active senator until his death in 1923 en route by train from Washington, D.C., to his hometown of Alexandria, where he was buried.

See also

• Knute Nelson Memorial Park
• List of United States senators born outside the United States
• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
• List of U.S. state governors born outside the United States

References

1. Millard L Gieske and Steven J Keillor: Norwegian Yankee: Knute Nelson and the Failure of American Politics 1860–1923. 1995: Norwegian-American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota. ISBN   0-87732-083-7, pps. 3–7
2. "Service to America Marked Long Career of Knute Nelson". Star Tribune. April 29, 1923. p. 4. Retrieved May 18, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
3. Minnesota Historical Society: Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, 1908, pp. 328–355
4. "Koshkonong", Tarje Grover Family Website, 1998-2012, accessed 10 March 2012
5. "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 9, 1903. p. 55. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
6. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine , State of Wisconsin
7. Martin, Lawrence (July 15, 2003). "Thursday Night Hikes: Capitol Hill/Cathedral Hill Hike Architecture Notes, Part 2". Archived from the original on April 6, 2005. Retrieved February 27, 2007.
8. Nevins, Allan, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage, p. 291.
9. Nevins, Allan, Grover Cleveland: a Study in Courage, p. 393.
10. "Knute Nelson for Governor," New York Times, July 29, 1892
11. "Nelson Governor of Minnesota," New York Times, November 7, 1894
12. "Crucible of Empire - PBS Online". www.pbs.org. Retrieved March 5, 2025.

• Minnesota Legislators Past and Present
• Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.
• Gieske, Millard L; Keillor, Steven J. (1995), Norwegian Yankee: Knute Nelson and the Failure of American Politics 1860–1923, Northfield, Minnesota: The Norwegian-American Historical Association, ISBN   0-87732-083-7
• Zeidel, Robert F. (2002), "Knute Nelson and the Immigration Question", in Aby, Anne (ed.), The North Star State: a Minnesota history reader, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, p. 376, archived from the original on July 19, 2011

External links

• Knute Nelson in MNopedia, the Minnesota Encyclopedia
• Knute Nelson at Minnesota Legislators Past & Present
• United States Congress. "Knute Nelson (id: N000040)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress .

Party political offices
Preceded by William Rush Merriam	Republican nominee for Governor of Minnesota 1892, 1894	Succeeded by David Marston Clough
First	Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Minnesota (Class 2) 1918	Succeeded by J. A. O. Preus
U.S. House of Representatives
New district	Member of the  U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district 1883–1889	Succeeded by Solomon Comstock
Political offices
Preceded by William Rush Merriam	Governor of Minnesota 1893–1895	Succeeded by David Marston Clough
Preceded by Charles A. Culberson	Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee 1919–1923	Succeeded by Frank B. Brandegee
U.S. Senate
Preceded by William D. Washburn	U.S. senator (Class 2) from Minnesota 1895–1923 Served alongside: Cushman Davis, Charles A. Towne, Moses E. Clapp, Frank B. Kellogg, Henrik Shipstead	Succeeded by Magnus Johnson