Karl E. Mundt

Karl Earl Mundt ( born June 3, 1900 in Humboldt, Minnehaha County, South Dakota; † August 16, 1974 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of South Dakota in both chambers of Congress.

Karl Mundt 1923 made ​​his college degree in Northfield (Minnesota). He then worked as a teacher at a high school in Bryant and in 1924 the city council. After he graduated in 1927 from Columbia University, he was up in 1936 as a lecturer at the State Teachers College in Madison worked.

His first political office had Mundt 1931 the play and held until 1937, as a member state Fisheries Commission. From 1939 to 1948 he represented then the first electoral district of South Dakota in the House of Representatives of the United States. On December 30, 1948, he resigned to fill the vacant seat of Vera C. Bushfield in the Senate of the United States. Mundt exercised this mandate from 31 December 1948 to 3 January 1973 until he no longer took for re-election. In the year after his retirement from Congress, he died in Washington.

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