Oscar Larson

Oscar John Larson ( born May 20, 1871 in Uleaborg, Finland, † August 1, 1957 in Duluth, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1925 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1876, Oscar Larson came with his parents to the United States. The family settled in Calumet (Michigan). There he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1891 at the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso University today. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1894 admitted to the bar he began in Calumet to work in his new profession. Between 1899 and 1904 he was district attorney in Houghton County.

In 1907, Larson moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where he continued to work as a lawyer. In his new home he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the eighth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Leighton Carss on March 4, 1921. After a re-election in 1922 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1925 two legislative sessions.

In 1924, Larson gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again withdrew from politics. In the following decades he again worked as a lawyer in Duluth. There is also Oscar Larson died on 1 August 1957.