Nonpartisan League
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The Nonpartisan League was a left-wing political party founded in 1915 in North Dakota by Arthur C. Townley, a former organizer for the Socialist Party of America. On behalf of small farmers and merch
1919 cover of the League's newspaper, The Nonpartisan Leader, portraying organized farmers and workers standing tall against big business interests.
Nonpartisan League meeting at Brush Lake, Montana.
Lynn Frazier
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Lynn Joseph Frazier was an American educator and politician who served as the 12th governor of North Dakota from 1917 until being recalled in 1921 and later served as a U.S. senator from North Dakota
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…was supported by a populist groundswell. It ran its slate as Republican Party candidates in the 1916 elections. In the gubernatorial election, farmer Lynn Frazier won with 79% of the vote. In 1917, John Miller Baer won a special election for the United States House of Representatives. In the 1918 elections, the…
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1923–1941
Frazier as captain of the University of North Dakota football team c. 1899–1900