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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North DakotaWilliam LANGER
(1886-1959)
Senate Years of Service:
1941-1959Party: RepublicanLANGER, William, a Senator
from North Dakota; born on a farm in Everest Township, near
Casselton, Cass County, N.Dak., September 30, 1886; attended the
rural schools; graduated from the law department of the University
of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1906 and from Columbia
University, New York City in 1910; admitted to the bar in 1911 and
began practice in Mandan, N.Dak.; State’s attorney of Morton
County, N.Dak., 1914-1916; moved to Bismarck, N.Dak., in 1916 and
continued the practice of law; attorney general of North Dakota
1916-1920; legal adviser for Council of Defense during the First
World War; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1920; Governor of
North Dakota January 1933 to July 1934, when he was removed by the
State supreme court; again Governor 1937-1939; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination for United States Senator in 1938; elected
as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940; though there
was an attempt to block his seating, Langer took his seat in the
Senate in 1941; reelected in 1946, 1952, and again in 1958, and
served from January 3, 1941, until his death in Washington, D.C.,
November 8, 1959; chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Civil
Service (Eightieth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary
(Eighty-third Congress); lay in state in the Senate chamber
November 10, 1959; interment in St. Leo’s Catholic Cemetery,
Casselton, N.Dak.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Barber, Charles M. “A Diamond in the Rough:
William Langer Reexamined.” North Dakota History 64
(Fall 1998): 2-18; Smith, Glenn H. Langer of North Dakota: A
Study in Isolationism, 1940-1959. New York: Garland Press,
1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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