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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MinnesotaBERNARD, John Toussaint
(1893—1983)
BERNARD, John Toussaint, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Bastia, Island of Corsica, France, March 6, 1893; in 1907 immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Eveleth, St. Louis County, Minn.; attended public schools in France and in Eveleth, Minn.; employed as an iron-ore miner 1910-1917 and as city fireman 1920-1936; served in the United States Army during the First World War as a corporal in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Field Artillery, and also as a civilian employee in the Army and Navy Intelligence 1917-1919, serving overseas fifteen months; delegate to the State Farmer-Labor Party conventions in 1936, 1938, and 1940; elected as a Farmer-Labor candidate to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; engaged as a labor organizer, legislative director and civil rights activist; moved to Long Beach, Calif., where he lived until his death there on August 6, 1983.
”A Common Man’s Courage: The Story of John Bernard.”
(Minneapolis, Minn.: University Community Video, 1977), 29 mins filmstrip.
8th District Farmer-Labor Association (Minn.). America salutes our champion of the New Deal
. [Minnesota: 8th District Farmer-Labor Association, 1938].
O’Donnell, John. “Minnesota’s New Baritone.” Saturday Evening Post
, 209 (March 13, 1937): 18, 67, 69.
Stuhler, Barbara. “The one man who voted ‘nay’; the story of John T. Bernard’s quarrel with American foreign policy, 1937-1939.” Minnesota History
, ( 43), no. 3 (fall 1972): 82-92.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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