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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North DakotaWilliam LEMKE
(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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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