William "Wild Bill" Langer was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 17th governor of North Dakota from 1932 to 1934 and the 21st governor from 1937 to 1939. His governorship was demarca
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Langer in the University of North Dakota yearbook, 1906
Langer as North Dakota Attorney General c. 1919
Langer as governor c. 1932–1939
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
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…a wife of abstract painter Kenneth Noland). In 1914, Langer was appointed state's attorney of Morton County and was one of a few non-farmers on the Nonpartisan League (NPL) Republican 1916 state ticket. He was elected state attorney general as the newly formed NPL party swept to victory in the 1916 election, but soon…
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.