Henrik Shipstead

Henrik Shipstead ( born January 8, 1881 in the Burbank Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, † June 26, 1960 in Alexandria, Minnesota ) was an American politician.

Shipstead studied at Northwestern University, Chicago; where he graduated in dentistry in 1903. 1904 to 1920 he was a practicing dentist in Glenwood, whose mayor until 1913 he was also from 1911. In the years 1917 and 1918 he was employed as an elected Member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota. In 1920 he moved to Minneapolis, where he continued to work as a dentist. After 1920, he had no success in the elections in the United States Congress in 1918 and the election for governor of Minnesota, he was elected in 1922 for the peasants and Workers' Party of Minnesota in the U.S. Senate and was dated 23 March 1923 to the 3 January. , 1947 U.S. Senator for the state of Minnesota.

The late thirties, he left the peasants and workers party because it was infiltrated communist in his view. In the elections of 1940, therefore, he went to the Republican Party.

His political career ended after he voted against the entry of the United States to the United Nations and was therefore no longer set by the Republicans as a Senate candidate.