Ernest Lundeen, U.S. Senator

Ernest Lundeen, a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota; born near Beresford, Union County, S.Dak., August 4, 1878; attended the common schools; served in Company B, Twelfth Minnesota Volunteers, during the Spanish-American War; graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., in 1901; studied law at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis; admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice at Minneapolis, Minn.; member, State house of representatives 1910-1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918; resumed the practice of law; was a candidate for Congress and the governorship on numerous occasions; elected as a Farmer-Laborite to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket to the United States Senate in 1936 and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in an airplane crash near Lovettsville, Va., on August 31, 1940; interment in Little Arlington National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.

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The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. The speech extolled the great contributions of German culture to American life, and argued that Americans had more in common with the fascist German government than it did with the democracies Germany was busy invading.