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Today, Harold Stassen is remembered as the “Grand Old Party’s Grand Old Loser”—the onetime “Boy Governor” who ran for president 10 times between 1948 and 1992—a “perennial,...
By the time President Truman stunned political prognosticators with his reelection in 1948, Harold Stassen had already spent nearly eighteen months running for the nation’s highest office.
- Steve Werle
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 .
Special Assistant to President Eisenhower. The United Nations deserves a lot of credit for ending the cold war without it turning into a hot war. And, it's a very crucial thing for the future. Harold Stassen was born on a farm in West St. Paul, Dakota County, Minnesota, in 1907.
Review of Lawrence S. Kaplan’s “Harold Stassen: Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament”
Sep 22, 2015 · On January 2, 1939, Stassen became the youngest governor in Minnesota history. Promising to rid the State Capitol of corruption and political patronage, Stassen pursued an ambitious set of ...
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Mar 13, 2015 · A new book tells the story of Minnesota's "boy governor," Harold Stassen. Stassen was one of the youngest people in the nation ever elected governor.
