The 1918 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 5, 1918. It was the first election for Minnesota's Class 2 seat in the United States Senate, and the second U.S. Senate elect
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Knute Nelson
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Knute Nelson was a Norwegian-born American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minne
1918 United States Senate election in Minnesota
…the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established the popular election of United States senators. Incumbent U.S. Senator Knute Nelson of the Republican Party of Minnesota easily defeated his challenger in the general election, Willis Greenleaf Calderwood of the National Party, to win…
Knute Nelson, age 12, and his mother Ingebjørg Haldorsdatter Grotland, c. 1855.
Civil war photograph of Nelson
1882 print of Nelson