Milton Young

Milton Ruben Young (December 6, 1897 in Berlin, North Dakota; † 31 May 1983; Sun City, Arizona ) was an American politician ( Republican) of the state of North Dakota from 1945 to 1981 in the U.S. Senate represented.

Early years and the beginning of the political career

After attending school in LaMoure County sat Milton Young his education at the North Dakota State University and Graceland College in Iowa continues. In 1919, he married Malinda Benson, with whom he had three sons. After her death in 1969 Young was a second marriage with Patricia Byrne.

Young returned to the end of his college education home to take over his father's farm. By the time he also began to engage in political activity. He was active at the local level and a member of various committees for education policy as well as for agriculture. In 1932 he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives from North Dakota and was successful; two years later he was elected to the State Senate. Even in his party took over responsibility Young: So he was a key figure in building the Republican Organizing Committee at the state level in the 1940s.

U.S. Senator

After the death of U.S. Senator John Milton Moses Young was appointed to succeed him in Congress by Governor Fred George Aandahl 1945. He was forced to abandon the family farm to his duties in Washington DC comply can. Thus began one of the longest Senator careers in the history of this body. Young was six times elected Senator and was mainly in the Agriculture Committee as well as the highest-ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee operates.

In 1974, the Senate nomination, he was made ​​within the party in dispute with reference to his age, but Young could ultimately prevail clear again. Six years later, the Republicans won the majority in the Senate, which would have meant for Young in another candidacy, that he had been elected as the senior senator of his party for President pro tempore. He, however, had previously decided to go into retirement. In recognition of his services he rendered to this date still the Democratic-controlled Senate this post on December 5, 1980 for a day.

Milton Young spent his life in Arizona, where he died in May 1983.

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