Odin Langen

Odin Elsford Stanley Long ( born January 5, 1913 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, † July 6, 1976 in Kennedy, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1971 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Odin Langen attended the common schools and then from 1933 to 1934, the Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis. After that he worked near the town of Kennedy as a farmer. Between 1935 and 1950 he also worked for the marketing company (Production Marketing Administration ) in Kittson County. In the years 1948 and 1950 he served as president of the school board of Kennedy. He was also a member of the School Committee of the City South Red River.

Long was a member of the Republican Party. From 1950 to 1958 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota. In the congressional elections of 1958 he was in the ninth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Coya Knutson on January 3, 1959. After a re-election in 1960 he was able to represent this district until its dissolution on January 3, 1963 at the Congress. In the elections of 1962 he was elected as the successor of Herman Carl Andersen in the U.S. House of Representatives in the seventh district. After three re- elections he could represent this district there until January 3, 1971. During his time in Congress of the Vietnam War began. Domestically, the United States was rocked by race riots.

In the elections of 1970 Long lost to Robert Bergland. In the years 1971 and 1972 he was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. After he retired from politics and worked again as a farmer. Odin Langen died on 6 July 1976.