Halvor Steenerson

Halvor Steenerson (* June 30, 1852 in Madison, Wisconsin, † November 22, 1926 in Crookston, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1923 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already moved in 1853 Steenerson with his parents to Sheldon in Houston County, Minnesota. There he attended the public schools and then high school in Rushford. After a subsequent law degree from Union College of Law in Chicago and its made ​​in 1878 admitted to the bar he began in Lanesboro to work in his new profession. In 1880 Steenerson moved to Crookston. Between 1881 and 1883 he was district attorney in Polk County. He also was a legal representative of the community Crookston.

Steenerson was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1883 and 1887 he was a member of the Minnesota Senate. In the years 1884 and 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions. In the congressional elections of 1902 Steenerson was ninth in the newly created constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1903. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1923 ten contiguous legislatures. In this time of the First World War fell. In addition, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. From 1907 to 1911 was Steenerson Chairman of the Committee on Militia. He was also from 1919 to 1923 a member of the Postal Committee.

In the elections of 1922 Steenerson lost against Knud Wefald of the Farmer-Labor Party. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was Vice President of the American Section of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Otherwise, he again worked as a lawyer in Crookston. There he is also deceased in November 1926.