Conrad Selvig

Conrad George Selvig ( born October 11, 1877 in Rushford, Fillmore County, Minnesota; † August 2, 1953 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1933 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Conrad Selvig attended the public schools of his home including Rushford High School, which he left in 1895. During the Spanish- American War of 1898 Selvig was a soldier in an infantry unit composed of volunteers from Minnesota. After the war he began a long career in the teaching profession. First, he taught in his rural home in small village schools. After that, he was 1901-1910 School Board in the communities Harmony and Glencoe. In the meantime, he continued his studies until 1907 continued at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In 1910, Selvig has been appointed head of the agricultural faculty of the University of Minnesota, based in Crookston. He was also President of several organizations that dealt with the problems of the farmers and the development of agriculture.

Politically, Selvig member of the Republican Party, whose regional convention in Minnesota, he attended in 1908 as a delegate. In the congressional elections of 1926, he was in the ninth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Knud Wefald on March 4, 1927. After a re-election in 1928 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 two legislative sessions. Shortly before the end of his last term of office of the 20th Amendment, there was passed, by which the time interval between the Congress and presidential elections and the respective office was shortened.

In the 1932 elections Selvig lost to Francis Shoemaker of the Farmer-Labor Party. After his retirement from the House of Representatives in 1935, he moved to Santa Monica in California. He became vice president of the National Hearing Society. Conrad Selvig died on August 2, 1953 in his new Californian hometown. He was buried in Crookston.