HenrikShipstead Against the UN When the U.S. Senate voted to approve U.S. membership in the new United Nations on July 28, 1945, faith in world policing was at high tide in the United States.
Shipstead was born on a farm in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota in 1881 to Norwegian immigrant parents.
Shipstead started as Republican but in 1922 was elected to the U.S. Senate under the banner of the new Farmer-Labor Party.
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Shipstead, Henrik - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Shipstead, Henrik(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A dentist, Shipstead was elected to the US Senate in 1923.
A supporter of La Follette and of the New Deal, he was also an isolationist concerning international affairs.
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The last one was HenrikShipstead, Farmer-Labor Party chairman of the Committee on Printing from 1928 to 1933.
According to a Senate historian, the last independent or third-party Senate committee chairman was HenrikShipstead, who headed the Committee on Printing from 1928 to 1933.
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The party received only 6,390 votes in the general election.
While the party received only a paltry sum for the national ticket, U.S. Senator HenrikShipstead (FL-MN) was re-elected as one of two FLP candidates for the Senate n 1928.
FLP candidates won a nationwide total of 1,138,079 for the 96 Senators of the Congress of 1929-1931.
Present, Senators Borah (chairman), Johnson, Moses, McLean, Edge, Billets, Reed of Pennsylvania, Fess, Swanson, Pittman, Robinson of Arkansas, Walsh of Montana, Reed of Missouri, Harrison, Bayard, George, and Shipstead.
Is your proposition that whatever these things you agreed to may be, they can not be considered as a corollary to the treaty, or a condition of it?
It must be clearly understood that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain accept the new treaty upon the distinct understanding that it does not prejudice their freedom of action in this respect.
From 1930 to 1931, he conducted research as a National Research Council Fellow in the biological sciences, specializing in nutrition, for the Department of Commerce Bureaus of Fisheries and Animal Industry.
When funding was discontinued at the end of 1932, he sought aid from U.S. Congressman C.G. Selvig and U.S. Senator HenrikShipstead in obtaining a position with the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Home Economics.
In 1934 he transferred to the Food and Drug Administration, and then to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
