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	Harold Stassen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943.
		Stassen's strongest bid for the presidential nomination was in 1948 when he won a series of upset victories in early primaries.
		Stassen played a key role in the 1952 Republican contest when he released his delegates to Dwight David Eisenhower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_E._Stassen (294 words)

	Harold Stassen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907–March 4, 2001) was the 25th (additional info and facts about Governor of Minnesota) Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943.
		Stassen's strongest bid for the presidential nomination was in 1948 when he won a series of upset victories in early (additional info and facts about primaries) primaries.
		Stassen played a key role in the 1952 Republican contest when he released his delegates to (United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)) Dwight David Eisenhower.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/harold_stassen.htm (373 words)

	Stassen, Harold Edward Society, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harold Stassen and the Ivy League Stassen wanted the University of Pennsylvania to have a big time football program, and was instrumental in getting Penn into the Ivy League.
		Harold Stassen, 1907-2001 Obituary for the former president of the University of Pennsylvania.
		Harold E. Stassen: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society Biography of the three-time governor of Minnesota, an overview of this collection of his papers, and more detailed descriptions of each major section.
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	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (H-Hd) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harold was son of Canute and was King of England from 1035 to 1040.
		Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, was a British Field Marshal and Conservative statesman.
		Harold II was a king of England during 1066.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C6.HTM (2683 words)

	Stassen, Harold Edward on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From 1949 to 1953, Stassen was president of the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
		A respected moderate and internationalist, Stassen was probably best known as a perenniallly unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, having sought it a total of nine times (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1988).
		Stassen ponders another run for office for which he wasn't always a longshot.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/stassen.asp (327 words)

	May/June Gazette: Obits: Harold Stassen
		Stassen was first elected governor of Minnesota when he was only 31 and delivered the keynote address at the 1940 Republican convention, where he helped clinch the nomination for Wendell Willkie.
		In all, Stassen’s tenure was not a particularly rewarding one, either for him or for Penn, and it was clear when he resigned to take a post in the Eisenhower Administration that he and the trustees were relieved to be rid of each other.
		Stassen kept few ties to the University after his term ended, but went on to build a successful law practice and continued to dabble in politics.
	www.upenn.edu /gazette/0501/stassen.html (1015 words)

	Directory - Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: People: Stassen, Harold Edward
		Harold Stassen, 1907-2001 · cached · Obituary for the former president of the University of Pennsylvania.
		Harold Stassen and the Ivy League · cached · Stassen wanted the University of Pennsylvania to have a big time football program, and was instrumental in getting Penn into the Ivy League.
		Harold E. Stassen: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society · cached · Biography of the three-time governor of Minnesota, an overview of this collection of his papers, and more detailed descriptions of each major section.
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	Harold E. Stassen
		Stassen was born on a farm in Dakota County, Minnesota, in 1907 and worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a pullman train conductor.
		While Stassen was serving his third term, Pearl Harbor was attacked; and being a young reserve officer, he resigned to go on active duty in the Navy.
		In May of 1990, a graduate professorship in international peace studies was established in Stassen's honor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
	www.horatioalger.com /members/member_info.cfm?memberid=sta51 (706 words)

	CBS News \| Quixotic Candidate Stassen Dies \| March 5, 2001 08:19:13
		Stassen, 93, died of natural causes early Sunday at Friendship Village, a retirement community in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington where he had been living for the last few years, said his granddaughter, Rachel Stassen-Berger.
		Stassen, a liberal Republican, sought his party's nomination for the White House nine times, the first in 1948 and the last in 1992.
		Stassen swung the convention to Eisenhower by releasing the Minnesota delegation to him at the end of the first ballot.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/03/05/national/main276307.shtml (678 words)

	HAROLD E. STASSEN: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
		Harold Stassen was born on a farm in Dakota County, Minnesota on April 13, 1907, the fourth of William A. and Elsie (Mueller) Stassen's five children.
		In 1938, at the age of 31, Harold Stassen was elected Governor of Minnesota, the youngest governor in the state's history.
		Stassen's advocacy of the United States as a leading participant in international affairs is reflected in a significant portion of the papers.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00202.html (1559 words)

	Truman Library - Harold Stassen Oral History Interview
		HAROLD STASSEN: President Roosevelt sent a cable to Admiral Halsey -- I was serving then as his Assistant Chief of Staff for Administration in the Pacific war -- stating that he would like me to be on the delegation.
		STASSEN: That's right Article 109, it became later, which was the basis on which you could really prepare a new charter and make a new start at some future year and which, of course, is overdue at this time.
		STASSEN: Certainly, in fact this was one of the real big battles inside the Eisenhower administration I felt we had to move in relation to Asia and Secretary George Humphrey was very much against it.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/stassen.htm (6644 words)

	Harold E. Stassen
		Harold Stassen vaulted into national attention when he became governor of Minnesota at the tender age of 31.
		Harold Edward Stassen was born on April 13, 1907, on a farm in Dakota County, Minnesota, the fourth of William and Elsie Stassen's five children.
		At the 1952 convention, Stassen was considered to be a serious contender along with Robert A. Taft, sponsor of the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1750.html (797 words)

	University of Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Harold E. Stassen Chair is an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota.
		Harold Stassen was a member of the Eisenhower administration from 1953 through 1958, directing the foreign aid program, serving on the National Security Council, and acting as special assistant to the president for disarmament.
		Stassen, the youngest person ever to serve as Minnesota's governor, also chaired the National Governors Conference and had a distinguished record as the president of the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.isanet.org /jobs/stassen.html (484 words)

	Harold Edward Stassen, Institutional Planning, University of Pennsylvania Archives
		Although Stassen hadn't spent years in a university setting, he brought a great deal of administrative and political experience to the presidency, which enabled him to advance the University in directions that the previous presidents had not.
		Stassen was also careful to make sure that members of the faculty could freely voice their opinions outside of the University.
		Harold Edward Stassen made his presidential mark by designing and implementing an ample number of administrative reforms and by significantly contributing to the physical development of the campus.
	www.archives.upenn.edu /histy/features/uplans/stassen.html (2003 words)

	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| United Nations
		Harold Stassen Papers document the life and career of a former Minnesota governor, presidential contender, naval officer, United Nations charter delegate, and Eisenhower cabinet member.
		Papers related to Stassen's involvement in the development of the United Nations charter illustrate his role in fostering international cooperation, his efforts at forwarding the position of the United States as a global leader, and his emergence as a negotiator in international relations.
		Stassen discusses his governorship of the state of Minnesota, the state's relationship with the mining industry, and he refutes the label from the 1940s that Minnesota was an isolationist state.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/library/tips/history_topics/116united.html (1219 words)

	The Nation, 06/03/1944 - Stassen of Minnesota by Rovere, Richard H. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harold E. Stassen, who has very little chance of becoming Republican candidate for President of the United States but a very good chance of being named for Vice-President, is easily the most impressive of the men whose names will be placed before the Chicago, Illinois convention.
		Stassen is in favor of world organization and of abandoning most, though not quite all, New Deal controls on the economy.
		...Stassen met one of the few serious issues of policy to arise-that of strikes-by putting through a law, which he fondly calls the "count-ten plan," that effectively hampers union strategy by forcing workers to give employers ten days' notice before a walkout...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v158i0023_08.htm (2013 words)

	MNHS.ORG : Governors of Minnesota \| Harold E. (Edward) Stassen
		Stassen was a strong contender for the 1948 Republican nomination for U.S. president but was defeated by Thomas Dewey at the G.O.P. national convention.
		Stassen also ran a strong campaign against Senator Robert Taft of Ohio for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination, but both Stassen and Taft were defeated by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
		Harold Stassen married Esther G. Glewwe on November 14, 1929, and they had two children: a son, Glen Harold, and a daughter, Kathleen Esther.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/people/governors/gov/gov_27.htm (705 words)

	Eisenhower Nominated on the First Ballot; Senator Nixon Chosen as His Running Mate; General Pledges 'Total Victory' ...
		Stassen's Minnesota delegates, no longer bound because he had received less than 10 per cent of the vote, broke away and cast nineteen votes for General Eisenhower before a first ballot result could be announced.
		The word from leaders of the Eisenhower camp was that they were sure of 590 votes when the first roll-call of states was taken, and that Harold E. Stassen would shift nineteen votes from his Minnesota delegation before the vote could be announced.
		Stassen and nine for General Eisenhower, wished to change its vote to twenty-eight for General Eisenhower.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/520712convention-gop-ra.html (2121 words)

	Directory - Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: People: Stassen, Harold Edward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stassen wanted the University of Pennsylvania to have a big time football program, and was instrumental in getting Penn into the Ivy League.
		Obituary for the lifelong American Baptist Harold E. Stassen, who served as president of the American Baptist Convention and was a charter signer of the National Council of Churches.
		Harold Stassen's delegates to the Republican convention voted for Eisenhower on the second ballot, starting a cascade that carried Eisenhower to the nomination.
	www.deerlakesearch.com /default?p=3322 (358 words)

	Republican Plank Demands That We Avoid War
		With the Auditorium filled to the capacity of 17,000, Governor Stassen received an enthusiastic welcome from the delegates and spectators when he was presented by National Chairman John Hamilton.
		The delegates again rose cheering in approval of Governor Stassen's declaration that no believer in communism, nazism or fascism must be permitted on the public payroll.
		Daniel E. Pomeroy, national committeeman, is trying to hold the delegation in line on the ground that Mr.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/400625convention-gop-ra.html (1438 words)

	American Baptists IN MISSION - May 2001 - Harold Stassen Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harold E. Stassen, a long-active American Baptist who was best known to many as a frequent unsuccessful candidate for U.S. president but who was a nationally prominent political and educational leader in the 1940s and 1950s, died March 4 in Minnesota.
		One of Stassen's most important accomplishments was his role, through appointment by President Franklin Roosevelt, as a leading architect of the United Nations Charter in 1945.
		In 1948 Stassen became president of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was credited with raising the academic standards of that institution.
	www.abc-usa.org /inmissn/may01/may01f.htm (479 words)

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		HAROLD E. A description of a portion of the Harold Stassen papers at the Minnesota Historical Society follows.
		The Minnesota Republican Volunteer Stassen for President Association was organized within the Republican State Central Committee and a second group called the Stassen-for-President Committee, chaired by the Republican State Central Committee chairman R.C. Radabaugh, worked to garner local and national support for Stassen.
		Stassen was to be nominated at the 1944 Republican National Convention by Minnesota Senator Joseph H. Ball but due to overwhelming support for Thomas Dewey the Minnesota delegation decided not to place Stassen's name as a nominee.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00202-2.html (1420 words)

	Additional Reading (from Harold E. Edgerton) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Edgerton, Harold E. American electrical engineer and photographer who was noted for creating high-speed photography techniques that he applied to scientific uses.
		Stassen, Harold E. Although he held several prominent political positions during his lifetime, Harold E. Stassen is probably most associated with the one he never held—the United States presidency.
		The Scottish poet and critic Harold Monro sought to make poetry accessible to a wider public in the early 20th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-216114?tocId=216114 (726 words)

	Politics1: Campaign Buttons & Collectibles Auction
		Governor Harold Stassen was the "Energizer Bunny" of US politics: he kept running and running.
		Stassen was only 31 when he was first elected Minnesota Governor in 1938 (defeating the incumbent by a an amazing 26% margin).
		This official button is from Stassen's 1980 campaign for President (he won a combined total of just 25,000 votes in the 20 primaries he entered -- but he did beat Senator Bob Dole in 5 early primaries, including Florida and Massachusetts).
	www.politics1.com /auction17.htm (4869 words)

	US People--Stassen, Harold E., Captain, USNR
		Harold Edward Stassen was born in West St. Paul, Minnesota, on 13 April 1907.
		Stassen subsequently ran for the offices of Governor of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Philadelphia, and maintained a law practice.
		Harold E. Stassen died at Bloomington, Minnesota, on 4 March 2001.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-s/h-stassn.htm (585 words)

	Former Minn. Gov. Stassen, perennial presidential candidate, died Sunday: 3/6/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Perennial presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen, whose name became a synonym for political futility despite a distinguished career as a governor, diplomat and university president, died Sunday.
		Stassen died of natural causes early Sunday at Friendship Village, a retirement community in this Minneapolis suburb where he had been living for the last few years, said his granddaughter, Rachel Stassen-Berger.
		But he lost the nomination to Thomas E. Dewey, who in turn was defeated by President Harry Truman.
	www.s-t.com /daily/03-01/03-06-01/a10wn069.htm (488 words)

	Stassen Harold Edward: 3D View of the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Martin is afraid if she spawns with the thuggish Harold, the world will be repopulated with violent people doomed to a future of more bomb building.
		Stassen, Harold Edward - Directory Home Encylopedia Directory eShowcase Sitemap Privacy Contact Us Top: Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: People: Stassen, Harold Edward Encyclopedia Americana: Harold Stassen - Short biographical article on the persistent candidate for the office of President of the United...
		Oral History Interview with Harold Stassen - Oral History Interview with Harold Stassen Transcript of a 1973 interview of Governor Stassen about his role in the foundation of the United Nations...
	www.resolve3d.com /Society/History/ByRegion/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/People/Stassen,HaroldEdward (1161 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Stassen was born in Dakota City, Minnesota, and worked his way through college and law school.
		After World War II, Stassen was named to the conference charged with creating the United Nations.
		He served as president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1953, then went to Washington to serve in appointed positions during the Eisenhower administration.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=atb025b09&templatename=/article/article.html (180 words)

	Harold E. Edgerton -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Known for experimentation and for creating shows with strong visual impact, Harold Prince pushed musical theater in new directions during the latter half of the 20th century and received 20 Tony awards for his efforts.
		U.S. flier Harold Charles Gatty was born in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia.
		Harold Foster drew magnificent landscapes as backgrounds for his Prince Valiant comics.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9363417 (762 words)

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