Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. To see all the different, creative, funny, nimble, brave, interesting, and morally supercharged ways that Americans decided to take this fight on themselves, messing with the fascists, its inspiring, and its interesting, and its energizing., I asked Maddow where America finds itself on the fascist-threat scale now compared to the early 1940s. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. E. J. TARR, 1722 19th St., NW., Washington. Senator Paul Lundeen (SSD9) lost his local assembly vote 48% to 52% to Lynda Zamora Wilson, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel. Advertisement. Elected to represent Minnesota's 3rd District, 5th District, and as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1917 to 1919, and 1933 to 1937. . Ernest Lundeen, U.S. The article appears at a German-language history website. Fighting to make sure Coloradans get equal opportunitiesand expanded opportunitiesanimates Paul Lundeens public service. Chicago Daily News negatives collection,. Long forgotten, Norman Lundeen Holman the wife of two U.S. DENVER, COLORADO - JANUARY 10: Colorado Governor Jared Polis looks out at supporters during his 2023 Inauguration ceremony for his second term outside the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol. Viereck, who had actively supported Robert M. La Follettes insurgent candidacy for the presidency in 1924, had cultivated friendships with several leading isolationist lawmakers, including New Yorks Hamilton Fish, Jr., but Senator Lundeen was arguably his closest ally in Congress. He graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1901 and then studied law at the University of Minnesota Law School. South Dakota Common Schools; Elementary School; 12th Regiment Minnesota Volunteers, Company B (Spanish-American War, Private), Minnesota National Guard, Company F, 1st Regiment, Minnesota National Guard, Company F, 1st Regiment (1st Lieutenant, October 20, 1910), Single (while in office); Norma Ward (married in 1919), Two children (after he left office): Ernest Ward, and Joan Jessie. Family and education. when he looks at the catastrophe that threatens to engulf Europe's culture today. ], This faith is well illustrated by the last sentence of his speech in the U.S. Senate July 11, 1940, when he concluded with this exclamation: The lamp of liberty will shine onthe symbol of American civilizationa beacon of hope for all mankind., [Not surprising there is no mention about the real content of the speech - Rooselvelt and the Potocki and other papers found in Warsaw. Though Lundeen had begun his political career as a Republican, he had run for office as a Farmer-Labor "Democrat" since 1933. Correspondence, speeches, writings, clippings, and printed matter relating to U.S. politics, U.S. neutrality in World Wars I and II, military conscription, New Deal legislation, the "court-packing scheme" of 1937, the Progressive movement, and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor party. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2003, S. The Lundeens in the USA come from Norway and Austria, according to ancestry sites. Senator: Minnesota; 01/03/1937 to 08/31/1940 [Elected] FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS Spouse: Single (while in office); Norma Ward (married in 1919) Children: Two children (after he left office): Ernest Ward, and Joan Jessie Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature: GENERAL NOTES He was born on a farm near Beresford. He served from January 3, 1937 in the 75th and 76th congresses, until his death. Investigative journalists and crusading columnists and activists working both to expose the threat and also, in some cases, to infiltrate these groups, she said. One thing that comes clear to me from this is that if you were a pro-British propagandist or writer during the war years from 1910 to 1950 or so, you were applauded, assisted and even funded by the governmental and media reigning powers, while if you were pro-German, or even recommended neutrality, you were under suspicion as an enemy of the state. Most other newspapers tried to downplay the importance of the documents. If you still have your research into his life and work (I hope you do), I'd love to publish it here as an article by you. Attic, Thomas Jefferson BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515(202) 226-1300. After switching to the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, he was elected. 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When extremist elected officials get caught plotting against America with the violent ultra right, this is the story of the lengths they will go toto cover their tracks., Its a history lesson worth taking given the fragile state of American democracy in 2022, menaced by increasingly visible far-right extremists, politicians with authoritarian tendencies, and riots in the halls of Congress. ? if Ambassador Bullitt had not promised her the military support of England, France, and America. 1868-1944. Hoover Institution Archive. (6) House of Representative Special Committee on Un-American Activities Investigation on Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2003, S. 76. Just as she failed to find justice in the courtroom, the soft-spoken and attractive Lundeen found little fondness and impartiality for her husbands memory at the ballot box as Benson, still enormously popular among Farmer-Laborites in the Twin Cities and with miners on Minnesotas Iron Range, easily captured the partys U.S. Senate nomination, garnering 66,051 votes to Lundeens 24,163 and 17,163 for Arens. Personal Facebook. By Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images. Ernest Lundeen, a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born near Beresford, Union County, S.Dak., August 4, 1878; attended the common schools; served in Company B, Twelfth Minnesota Volunteers, during the Spanish-American War; graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., in 1901; studied law at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis; admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice at Minneapolis, Minn.; member, State house of representatives 1910-1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918; resumed the practice of law; was a candidate for Congress and the governorship on numerous occasions; elected as a Farmer-Laborite to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket to the United States Senate in 1936 and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in an airplane crash near Lovettsville, Va., on August 31, 1940; interment in Little Arlington National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lundeen http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000514. Norma Lundeen was born circa 1900, at birth place, California. History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, LUNDEEN, Ernest, https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/L/LUNDEEN,-Ernest-(L000514)/ Lundeen's father, C.H. She later made a dramatic plea for justice for her late husbands memory, but was denied an opportunity to speak directly to the jury. Half brother of Elizabeth A Lagergren. Holman, who served on the Senate Military Affairs Committee with Lundeens late husband, had been narrowly defeated in a bid for a second term a few months earlier, losing a bitterly-contested Republican primary to the blunt-mannered and outspoken Wayne Morse. In a historic move, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) may filibuster against massive aid package to Israel. He was imprisoned for five years. Chicago Daily News negatives collection,. Email. The death of Sen. converted into a temporary morgue. Interesting to me, Ralph (Ralf) Strassburger's great-great grandmother was Eva Yeager, daughter of John Yeager (Jger) and Eva Elisabeth Schneider, born in Pennsylvania. Senator from Minnesota, 1937-40; Defeated, 1923 (Republican primary), 1930 (Farmer-Labor); Died in office 1940; So with the current anti-democracy campaign intended to Nazify America (and you know which orange figurehead and faithless political party this involves, as with Republican Senator Lundeen in 1940), Rachel Maddow 's new podcast Ultra (which premiered today!) Aug 4 1878 - Beresford, Clay, South Dakota, USA, Aug 31 1940 - Lovetsville, Loudoun, Virginia, USA, the briefest of sessions) out of respect for the late Senator. -cy] However, instead of examining Bullitt's activities, there was only one investigation into the translation of the documents. Lundeen was an early pioneer in South Dakota, where Ernest was born and raised. Updated: November 9, 2011 Biography ID: 76934876 met with Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. Lundeen served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. When I published a Rachel Maddow profile a few months ago, the part that made the most news was Maddow saying not-terrible things about Tucker Carlson. Through Lundeen, I've learned about a couple others who are also of particular interest to me. By then, the Lundeen name had been too badlytarnished by revelations that her late husband had associated with some fairly seedy characters on the Far Right, the most damaging of which was his longtime association with George Sylvester Viereck, a controversial German-American poet and novelist who was then serving a two-to-six year prison sentence for having worked as a publicist and propagandist for the Nazis following Hitlers rise to power in Germany. 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