Roger L. Dell (July 19, 1897 – March 8, 1966) was an American businessman, lawyer, and jurist.
Born in Bird Island, Minnesota, Dell graduated from Shakopee High School in Shakopee, Minnesota, in 1916. He received his law degree, in 1920, from Saint Paul College of Law (now William Mitchell College of Law). He was admitted to the Minnesota Bar and moved to Fergus Falls. He practiced there with several different law partners until Governor C. Elmer Anderson appointed him to the Minnesota Supreme Court in January 1953. He served as chief justice from 1953 to 1962. After his retirement in 1962, Dell managed and was president of Fergus Properties. Dell died in a hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota of a heart attack just before he was going undergo heart surgery. [1] [2]
Bird Island is a city on U.S. Route 212 in Renville County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,042 at the 2010 census.
Shakopee is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota. It is located southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Sited on the south bank bend of the Minnesota River, Shakopee and nearby suburbs comprise the southwest portion of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the sixteenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 3.3 million people. The population of Shakopee was 37,076 at the 2010 census.
William Mitchell College of Law was a private, independent law school located in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1956 to 2015. Accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. On December 9, 2015, William Mitchell closed its doors, merging with its longtime rival, the Hamline University School of Law, and became the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
![]() | This article about a Minnesota politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Fergus Falls is a city in and the county seat of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,138 at the 2010 census.
Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson was an American Democratic politician who served the United States in all three branches of government. The most prominent member of the Vinson political family, he was the 53rd United States Secretary of the Treasury and the 13th Chief Justice of the United States.
Alexander MacDonald "Sandy" Keith is a Minnesota lawyer who served as a state senator, the 37th Lieutenant Governor, and an associate justice and chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
James Beach Wakefield was a United States Representative from Minnesota.
Haldor Erickson Boen was an American congressman from Minnesota.
Edward Engerud was an American attorney who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1904 to 1907.
The University of South Dakota School of Law in Vermillion, South Dakota, United States, is a professional school of the University of South Dakota and the only law school in the state of South Dakota. Established in 1901, by U.S. Ambassador Bartlett Tripp and U.S. Senator Thomas Sterling.
Roger Leland Wollman is a Senior United States Circuit Judge and former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is the older brother of Harvey L. Wollman, former Governor of South Dakota.
Peter Stephen Popovich was an American lawyer, politician, and judge from Minnesota. He is the only person in the state's history to serve as both Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals and Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Edward James Devitt was a United States Representative from Minnesota and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Oscar R. Knutson was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota.
Martin A. Nelson was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. He served as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Larry B. "Bud" Nornes is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represents District 8A, which includes most of Otter Tail County in the west central part of the state. He is the former owner of radio station KJJK AM and KJJK FM based in Fergus Falls, having sold the stations in 1997.
James Fergus was a miner, rancher, businessman and politician in Minnesota and Montana. He immigrated as a young man from Scotland and became a naturalized United States citizen. He helped develop the frontier in both territories, founding cities and counties.
The 1889 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1889 college football season. The Wolverines played their home games at Ann Arbor Fairgrounds.
Clifford L. Hilton was an American lawyer.
Charles Lundy Lewis was an American jurist.
Frank T. Gallagher was an American jurist.
William P. Murphy was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1955 to 1972.