Arlan Stangeland

Arlan Stangeland Inge Hart ( born February 8, 1930 in Fargo, North Dakota; † July 2, 2013 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1977 and 1991 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arlan Stangeland visited in Minnesota until 1948, the Moorhead High School. After that he worked as a farmer. In the years 1976 and 1977 he was a member of the school board of the municipality Barnesville. Politically, Stangeland joined the Republican Party. Between 1966 and 1975 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota. From 1964 to 1968 he was a delegate to the regional party conferences of the Republicans in Minnesota.

Following the resignation of Mr Robert Bergland, who had been appointed to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Stangeland won the made ​​necessary by-election in the seventh constituency of Minnesota and moved on 22 February 1977 as the highlands successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC one. After he was confirmed in the following six regular elections in his mandate, he could remain until January 3, 1991 at the Congress.

In the 1990 elections Stangeland lost to Collin Peterson. One reason for his defeat was a waste allegations because he had settled at many private phone calls on the Congress. Subsequently, Arlan Stangeland withdrew from politics.