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  Hjalmar Petersen
Hjalmar Peteresen was born in Denmark and moved to Minnesota as a child.
Hjalmer Petersen was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1930, and was reelected in 1932.
Hjalmer Petersen was elected Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 1934 and served as lieutenant to Governor Floyd B. Olson.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hj/Hjalmar_Petersen.html   (129 words)

  
 Hjalmar Petersen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hjalmar Petersen (January 2, 1890–March 29, 1968) was an American politician who was born in Denmark and moved to Minnesota as a child.
Hjalmar Petersen was elected Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 1934 and served with Governor Floyd B. Olson.
He was sworn in as Governor two days later and served the remainder of Olson's term, the 23rd Governor of Minnesota in office from August 24, 1936 to January 4, 1937.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/h/hj/hjalmar_petersen.html   (135 words)

  
 MNHS.ORG : Governors of Minnesota | Hjalmar Petersen
Hjalmar Petersen rose to the challenge during the 134 days he was governor by making key judicial appointments and helping settle several rancorous labor disputes.
Petersen's formal schooling ended at age 14, when he became an employee of the Tyler Journal in the community where his immigrant parents had settled.
Between his gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns, Petersen was elected to three six-year terms as railroad and warehouse commissioner while continuing to publish his liberal newspaper.
www.mnhs.org /people/governors/gov/gov_25.htm   (322 words)

  
 Hjalmar Petersen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hjalmar Petersen (January 2, 1890–March 29, 1968) was an American politician who was born in 1890 in Eskildstrup, Denmark and moved to Minnesota as a child.
Hjalmar Petersen was elected the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 1934 and served with Governor Floyd B. Olson.
Petersen • Lindsten • Anderson • Thye • Miller • Anderson • Nelsen • Wright • Rolvaag • Keith • Goetz • Perpich • Olson • Wangberg • Johnson • Dyrstad • Benson • Schunk • Molnau
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hjalmar_Petersen   (348 words)

  
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Hjalmar charged that the Farmer-Labor Administration was dominated by a small clique of "Mexican Generals," behind the scenes operators who were neither representative of or responsible to the public.
Hjalmar Petersen's name did not come up in the debate, but the target of the rules change was clear.
Hjalmar Petersen had done an effective job portraying the Benson administration as a vast patronage operation--heavily staffed with incompetent officials appointed solely on the basis of their loyalty to the Farmer-Labor machine.
karmak.org /archive/2004/06/fla3hist.htm   (9623 words)

  
 Minnesota - MSN Encarta
Roosevelt was the first Democrat to win Minnesota’s presidential vote, carrying the state in all four of his campaigns.
Lieutenant Governor Hjalmar Petersen completed Olson’s third term, and in 1936 Elmer Benson was elected governor.
A Republican resurgence began with the election of 31-year-old Governor Harold Edward Stassen in 1938.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572444_11/Minnesota.html   (2418 words)

  
 TIME.com: Hyphen Primary -- Jul 4, 1938 -- Page 1
Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson in 1936, once quit the party for a time because he thought it was going Communist.
Last week, the party went to the polls to choose between Governor Benson and onetime Governor Petersen in its gubernatorial primary, to settle which was the stronger side of Farmer-Labor's hyphen.
Notable for bitterness—Candidate Petersen called Candidate Benson and his friends "racketeers"—the primary was notable also for the intervention of Franklin Roosevelt, who last month removed State WPAdministrator Victor Christgau at the insistence of Governor Benson, a New Deal ally in 1936 and potentially an even more valuable ally in 1940.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,759917,00.html   (637 words)

  
 Petersen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Petersen is a surname, and may refer to
Ole Peter Petersen, founder of Methodism in Norway
This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petersen   (98 words)

  
 January 11 - 15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Denise was born in Albert Lea, Minn., on Nov. 6, 1938, the daughter of William and Melva (Spoon) Hanson.
On April 11, 1956, Denise was united in marriage with Richard Petersen at the Salem Lutheran Church in Albert Lea.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Melva and William Hanson; step-mother, Emma Hanson; husband, Richard in 1997; daughter, Cindy Jo Petersen in 1981, and father-in-law, Hjalmar Petersen in 1958.
www.pafways.org /obituaries/mcgg/2004/jan3.htm   (8274 words)

  
 Hj   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Image:Hjalmar and Hjörvard.JPGright250pxthumbHjalmar proposes to Ingeborg '''Hjalmar''' was a Swedish hero who figures in the Hervarar saga and in Orvar-Odd's saga.
'''Hjalmar R. Holand''' was an early advocate for the theory that Vikings visited the New World 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
'''Hjalmar Petersen''' (January 2, 1890andndash;March 29, 1968) was an United StatesAmerican politician who was born in Denmark and moved to Minnesota as a child.
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 JOHN BEECHER: An Inventory of His Draft of Tomorrow is a Day at the Minnesota Historical Society
Beecher, a laborer, writer, poet, teacher, and New Deal public servant, surveyed Minnesota politicians and their associates before 1930 and focused on Farmer-Labor party governors Floyd B. Olson, Hjalmar Petersen, and Elmer A. Benson.
Born in New York City in 1904, a great-great-nephew of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Beecher moved to Alabama at the age of three.
The larger second part focuses in greater detail on the problems that faced the farmer-labor governors--Floyd B. Olson, Hjalmar Petersen, and Elmer A. Benson--and their successes and failures in implementing the farmer-labor platform and policies.
www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/P0035.html   (486 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota : the politics of provincial independence
Find in a Library: Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota : the politics of provincial independence
Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota : the politics of provincial independence
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 Keillor (1987) Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The politics of provincial independence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Keillor (1987) Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The politics of provincial independence
Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The politics of provincial independence
Minnesota; Politics and government; 1858-1950; Governors; Journalists; Biography; Petersen, Hjalmar
www.getcited.org /pub/102605150   (39 words)

  
 NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Keillor, Steven J. Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The Politics of Provincial Independence, St. Paul, Minnesota 1987.
A biography of a politician who rose to prominence in Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party and served briefly as governor following the death in office of Floyd B. Olson.
Ida Jensen Hansen of Ringsaker, Norway, eased the transition to American society for thousands of Scandinavian-American women with her Kvinnen og Hjemmet (Woman and the Home), published in both Norwegian and Swedish editions.
www.naha.stolaf.edu /pubs/nas/volume32/vol32_13.htm   (5328 words)

  
 Minnesota Legislative Reference Library - Minnesota Lieutenant Governors, 1858-
As president of the Minnesota senate, Olson assumed office of lieutenant governor when Rudy Perpich (then lieutenant governor) became governor on the resignation of Wendell Anderson (who had appointed himself to the U.S. Senate on resignation of Walter Mondale to become U.S. Vice President).
Richardson, William B. Richardson was actually president pro tem of Minnesota Senate; became acting lieutenant governor when lieutenant governor Hjalmar Petersen became governor on the death of Floyd B. Olson, but Richardson was never sworn in.
Date Collins assumed office given as 1921 2 Jan. in some sources, but is 4 Jan. according to 1921 senate journal, p.
www.leg.state.mn.us /lrl/mngov/ltgov.asp   (351 words)

  
 TIME.com: Second Line -- Oct. 12, 1936 -- Page 1
Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck has done little to win Delaware's three electoral votes, Hoffman is probably more of a hindrance than a help to the Republicans in New Jersey and Fitzgerald is engaged in a touch-and-go dogfight for Michigan.
There are two non-Democratic Governors: Philip La Follette of Wisconsin and Hjalmar Petersen, who succeeded the late Floyd Olson, of Minnesota.
Both La Follette and the heirs of Olson are allies of the New Deal.* In each of the other 37 States a Democrat sits in the Governor's chair.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,848611,00.html   (759 words)

  
 Jóhanna Barðdal
In that way, a language change in progress can be studied.
The project also includes Tolli Eythórsson, U.K., Jóhannes G. Jónsson, Iceland, and Hjalmar P. Petersen, the Faroes.
Jóhanna has developed an interest in Construction Grammar and written several papers using that theoretical framework, such as a paper on the Inchoative construction in Icelandic and a (joint) paper on the Passive construction in Icelandic compared to the passive in Scandinavian.
www.cas.unt.edu /~jbarddal   (346 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The Politics of Provincial Independence: Books: Steven J. Keillor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 JOHNSON, Magnus (1871-1936) Guide to Research Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Papers documenting other aspects of his career believed destroyed in a fire at his farm.
Additional Papers: Correspondence in Hjalmar Petersen papers, 1907-1968; and additional items in various collections.
Oral history: Discussed in interview with Francis A. Johnson, son of Magnus Johnson (1973), 27 pages.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=J000161   (72 words)

  
 1997 Session Weekly from the Minnesota House Public Information Services
Session Weekly Issue 13, April 4, 1997 With A Closer Look: Stadium funding proposals, New Member profiles, the week's legislative highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 14, April 11, 1997 With A Closer Look: Smart Cards, a feature on former Gov. Hjalmar Petersen, New Member profiles, the week's legislative highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 15, April 18, 1997 With features on former Gov. Harold Stassen, Capitol monuments, and former U. Supreme Court Justive Pierce Butler, bills signed by the Governor as of April 17, 1997, the week's legislative highlights, and more.
www.house.leg.state.mn.us /HINFO/SWKLY.HTM   (742 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 16.2026: Nordic Journal of Linguistics 28/1 (2005)
Verb-first constructions as a syntactic and functional resource in (spoken) Swedish
Höskuldur Thráinsson, Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo
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www.linguistlist.org /issues/16/16-2026.html   (107 words)

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