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Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American Republican Party politician, military officer, and attorney who was the 25th governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 1948.
Stassen decided to run for Dakota County attorney in 1930, despite contracting tuberculosis. He won the election with the help of family and friends who campaigned while he convalesced at Pokegama Sanitarium.
Harold Edward Stassen, American lawyer, former Governor of Minnesota. Bar: Minnesota 1929, United States Supreme Court 1933, Pennsylvania 1949. Decorated citations honor.
Feb 27, 2008 · The gentle thud of consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s hat dropping into the campaign ring for the fourth time seemed immediately to invite comparisons to another persistent presidential bridesmaid,...
Harold E. Stassen — national political leader, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and later, perennial candidate for public office — was born on April 13, 1907, in West St. Paul, Minnesota, to William Andrew Stassen, a farmer, and Elsie Emma Mueller.
Feb 8, 2015 · A self-made man who put himself through college working as a Pullman car conductor, Stassen became a successful attorney and, at age 31, the youngest man ever to have been elected governor of a...
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Dec 20, 2023 · An attorney in South St. Paul, Stassen was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1938 at the young age of 31. Known as the “boy governor,” Stassen was the youngest person elected to that post. Stassen was reelected in 1940 and in 1942.
