Asle Gronna

Asle Jorgenson Gronna ( born December 10, 1858 in Elkader, Iowa; † May 4, 1922 in Lakota, North Dakota ) was a U.S. Representative ( Republican), who represented the state of North Dakota in both chambers of Congress.

Life

Gronna, who was of Norwegian descent, and his family moved to Houston County in Minnesota when he was still a child. He attended the public schools and the Caledonia Academy, and later he was employed as a teacher in Wilmington. In 1879 he settled in the Dakota Territory, where he worked in agriculture and as a teacher and as a businessman.

There he was politically active and was in 1889 the House of Representatives of the Territory of. In Lakota, he served as president of the board of trustees, the local governing body, as well as head of the Department of Education. In 1902 he was a trustee of the University of North Dakota.

Policy

Finally, in 1904 the choice was made to the House of Representatives of the United States, where he represented the 2nd Congressional District of North Dakota on 4 March 1905 to February 2, 1911. Gronna resigned to switch within the Congress in the Senate. He succeeds the late in the Official Martin N. Johnson. In the election he had prevailed against the Democrats William E. Purcell, who had taken his place as acting according to Johnson's death.

In 1914, Asle Gronna was re-elected; In 1920 he was no longer nominated by his party. During his time in the Senate, he served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee. He was one of six senators who voted against U.S. entry into World War II. In 1919, he spoke out against the accession of the United States to the League of Nations.

In advance of the presidential election in 1920 Asle Gronna belonged at the Republican National Convention in Chicago at the contenders for the vice-presidency. With 24 votes, but he won in the vote only in fifth place; the vote of party members fell by a large majority on Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States later became the successor of the deceased in the Official Warren G. Harding.