 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North DakotaLEMKE, William
(1878—1950)
LEMKE, William, a Representative from North Dakota; born in Albany, Stearns County, Minn., August 13, 1878; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1902 and Yale University in 1905; studied law at the University of North Dakota and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice at Fargo, N.Dak.; member of the national executive committee of the National Nonpartisan League 1917-1921; chairman of the Republican State committee 1916-1920; attorney general of North Dakota in 1921 and 1922; Union Party candidate for President in 1936; elected as a Nonpartisan on the Republican ticket to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1941); renominated as a Republican in 1940; later withdrew and was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for election to the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his death in Fargo, N.Dak., May 30, 1950; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
Bibliography
Blackorby, Edward C. Prairie Rebel; The Public Life of William Lemke
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
Blackorby, Edward C. Prairie Rebel: The Public Life of William Lemke.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
———. “William Lemke: Agrarian Radical and Union Party Presidential Candidate.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review
49 (June 1962): 67-84.
Lemke, William. Crimes Against Mexico.
Minneapolis: Great West Printing Company, 1915.
———. You and Your Money.
Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1937.
Powell, David O. “The Union Party of 1936: Organization and Finance.” North Dakota History
34 (Spring 1967): 147-56.
Steele, William O. Frazier-Lemke Farm Debt Moratorium Act.
Oklahoma City: The Leader Press, Inc., 1937.
United States. 82d Cong., 1st sess., 1951. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of William Lemke, late a Representative from North Dakota
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1951.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
|
