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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MinnesotaAncher NELSEN
(1904-1992)
NELSEN, Ancher, a
Representative from Minnesota; born on a farm in Renville County,
Near Buffalo Lake, Minn., October 11, 1904; graduated from high
school in Brownton, Minn., 1923; member of the District No. 75
school board, 1926-1935; member of the Lynn Township, Minn., school
board, 1929-1935; farmer; member of the Minnesota state senate,
1935-1949; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1948
and 1952; Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, 1953; administrator of
the Rural Electrification Administration Program, Washington, D.C.,
1953-1956; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth Congress;
reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1959-December 31, 1974); was not a candidate for reelection to the
Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; died on November 30, 1992, in
Hutchinson, Minn.; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Hutchinson,
Minn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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