Kittel Halvorson

Kittel Halvorson (* December 15 1846 in Telemark, Norway, † July 12, 1936 in Havana, North Dakota) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a small child came Kittel Halvorson with his parents to the United States. The family first settled in Wisconsin. There the boy attended the public schools in the Town of Winchester. Between 1863 and 1865 Halvorson served during the Civil War as a soldier in the army of the Union. In November 1865 he moved to the Stearns County, Minnesota. There he addressed the livestock and other agricultural activities. Between 1870 and 1875 he served as justice of the peace. From 1870 to 1891 Halvorson held a number of local offices in Belgrade.

Politically Halvorson was a member of the short-lived Populist Party. Between 1886 and 1888 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was in the fifth electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Solomon Comstock on March 4, 1891. Since he lost by the Republican Party already in the next election against Loren Fletcher, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Halvorson again worked in agriculture. Lived between 1900 and 1910, he worked in Sargent County, North Dakota. Then he returned to Minnesota, where he worked until 1924 as a farmer in North Fork. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on July 12, 1936 in Havana ( North Dakota).