Knud Wefald

Knud Wefald ( born November 3, 1869 in Kragerø, Norway, † October 25, 1936 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1927 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Knud Wefald attended the public schools of his native Norway. In 1887 he came to the United States. Since 1896 he lived in the town of Hawley in Clay County in Minnesota. There he worked in agriculture. He was also manager and part owner of a working in the wood industry company. Wefald became a member of the municipal council of Hawley, whose chairman he was repeatedly 1907-1918. In the years 1913-1915 Wefald sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota.

In the congressional elections of 1922 he was a candidate of the Farmer-Labor Party in the ninth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Halvor Steenerson on March 4, 1923. After a re-election in 1924 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 two legislative sessions. In the 1926 elections, he was defeated by Republican Conrad Selvig.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Wefald took his previous activities on again. Between 1929 and 1931 he was in Fargo (North Dakota) out one appearing in the Norwegian language newspaper. In the years 1931 and 1932 Wefald was Secretary in the Finance Administration Commission of Minnesota. From January 1933 until his death he served as railroad commissioner of the state of Minnesota. Knud Wefald died on October 25, 1936 in Saint Paul and was buried in Hawley.