Charles August Lindbergh
Charles August Lindbergh (born 20 January 1859 in Stockholm, Sweden, † May 24, 1924 in Crookston, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1917 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the father of the aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Life
In 1860 he came with his father to the United States. The parents had recently separated and his father had to leave Sweden on charges of corruption. On this occasion, the original family name was changed to Lindbergh Mansson. The family settled on a farm near Melrose in Stearns County, Minnesota. Lindbergh attended the public schools of his new home, including the Grove Lake Academy and the St. Cloud Normal School. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made in 1883 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in Little Falls in his new profession. He also worked in agriculture.
Between 1891 and 1893, Lindbergh was district attorney in Morrison County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1906 he was in the sixth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1907 is the successor of Clarence Buckman. After four elections he could spend in Congress until March 3, 1917 five legislative sessions. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. Lindbergh was an opponent of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
In 1916, Lindbergh opted not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate of the Nonpartisan League for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He then worked again as a lawyer. In 1917, Lindbergh committed against the American entry into the First World War. In 1918 he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Minnesota. Later, Lindbergh joined the Farmer-Labor Party. Within the party, he applied for the nomination for the gubernatorial elections of the year 1924., But he died before the primaries of the party from a brain tumor.