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Otto Krueger (politician)
Otto G. Krueger (September 7, 1890 – June 6, 1963) was a North Dakota politician who served as the North Dakota State Treasurer and the North Dakota Insurance Commissioner at different periods during the 1940s. He later served as a U.S. Representative from his state in the 1950s. Biography Krueger was born of German parents in the Volinia district of southwest Russia in 1890. He attended grade and high school in Russian and German schools, and immigrated to the United States in June 1910 and settled in Fessenden, North Dakota. He furthered his education through grade and high schools and two years of business school in Fargo, North Dakota and Great Falls, Montana. During the First World War he served as a private in the Infantry from April 1918 to May 1919, with overseas service in the 91st division. He served as the county auditor for Wells County, North Dakota from 1920 to 1940 and a clerk of the Fessenden School District from 1922 to 1940. He was elected as the North Dakota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west. It is believed to host the geographic center of North America, Rugby, North Dakota, Rugby, and is home to the tallest man-made structure in the Western Hemisphere, the KVLY-TV mast. North Dakota is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 19th largest state, but with a population of less than 780,000 2020 United States census, as of 2020, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 4th least populous and List of U.S. states by population density, 4th most sparsely populated. The capital is Bismarck, North Dakota, Bismarck while the largest city is Fargo, North Dakota, Fargo, which accounts for nearly a fifth of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Falls, Montana
Great Falls is the third most populous city in the U.S. state of Montana and the county seat of Cascade County. The population was 60,442 according to the 2020 census. The city covers an area of and is the principal city of the Great Falls, Montana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Cascade County. The Great Falls MSA’s population stood at 84,414 in the 2020 census. A cultural, commercial and financial center in the central part of the state, Great Falls is located just east of the Rocky Mountains and is bisected by the Missouri River. It is from the east entrance to Glacier National Park in northern Montana, and from Yellowstone National Park in southern Montana and northern Wyoming. A north–south federal highway, Interstate 15, serves the city. Great Falls is named for a series of five waterfalls located on the Missouri River north and east of the city. The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1805–1806 was forced to portage around a stretch of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American People Of German-Russian Descent
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Gheorghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 Births
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of North Dakota Insurance Commissioners
The North Dakota Insurance Commissioner regulates the insurance industry in North Dakota, United States. The following is a list of those that have held the position. {, class=wikitable , - ! # !! Name !! Term !! Party , - , 1 , , A.L. Carey , , 1889–1892 , , Republican , - , 2 , , James Cudhie , , 1893–1894 , , Democratic-Independent , - , 3 , , Frederick B. Fancher , , 1895–1898 , , Republican , - , 4 , , George W. Harrison , , 1899–1900 , , Republican , - , 5 , , Ferdinand Leutz , , 1901–1904 , , Republican , - , 6 , , Ernest C. Cooper , , 1905–1910 , , Republican , - , 7 , , Walter C. Taylor , , 1911–1916 , , Republican , - , 8 , , Sveinung A. Olsness , , 1917–1934 , , Republican , - , 9 , , Harold Hopton , , 1935–1936 , , Republican , - , 10 , , Oscar E. Erickson , , 1937–1945 , , Republican , - , 11 , , Otto Krueger , , 1945–1950 , , Republican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of North Dakota State Treasurers
The following is a list of North Dakota State Treasurers. The office has always been on a party affiliated ballot, and was a two-year term office until 1964. Since then, State Treasurers have been elected to four-year terms. The State Treasurer was prohibited from serving more than two consecutive terms until the prohibition was removed by a vote in 1996.North Dakota Blue Book, 2005 List See also *North Dakota State Treasurer The North Dakota State Treasurer is a political office in North Dakota. The treasurer's duty is to assure sound financial oversight and absolute safety of all public funds collected, managed, and disbursed. The Office of the State Treasurer is sepa ... Notes {{reflist External linksNorth Dakota State Treasurer website State Treasurers * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Anderson (North Dakota)
Carl Anderson (July 16, 1897 – February 7, 1945) was a North Dakota public servant and politician with the Republican Party. He served as the North Dakota State Treasurer from 1941 to 1944. He did not seek re-election to another term since Treasurers were not permitted to serve more than two consecutive terms. Biography Carl O. Anderson was born in Lyon County, Minnesota in 1897. He resided there until he was 10 years old, and came to North Dakota; settling in Morton County. After living there for 18 years, he moved to Cass County and attended the Normal School at Valley City, North Dakota. He taught for six terms, but then returned to farming near Page. Anderson was a member of the Lutheran Church, and he was married to Dorothy Gross of Raleigh, North Dakota, whose father, Otis Gross, served in the North Dakota Senate during the 1920s.North Dakota Blue Book, 1942 Anderson was elected as the North Dakota State Treasurer The North Dakota State Treasurer is a political office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Rights Act Of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The bill was passed by the 85th United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957. The Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in the case of ''Brown v. Board of Education'' brought the issue of school desegregation to the fore of public attention, as Southern Democratic leaders began a campaign of "massive resistance" against desegregation. In the midst of this campaign, President Eisenhower proposed a civil rights bill designed to provide federal protection for African Americans, African American voting rights; most African Americans in the Southern United States had been Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era, disenfranchised by state and local laws. Though the civil rights bill passed Congress, opponents of the act were able to remove or weaken se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
85th United States Congress
The 85th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1957, to January 3, 1959, during the fifth and sixth years of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. To date, this is the earliest Congress with a member still living. Major events * January 5, 1957: President Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in a special message to Congress * January 20, 1957: Inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower for a second term * August 21, 1957: President Eisenhower announced a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing * August 28, 1957: Senator Strom Thurmond set a record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
84th United States Congress
The 84th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1955, to January 3, 1957, during the third and fourth years of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. The Democratic Party won back majorities in both the House and Senate, thus giving them full control of Congress, although Republican Party won the Senate in the last Congress. Major events * January 28, 1955: Congress authorized the President to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China * February 10, 1955: The United States Navy helped the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan. * February 12, 1955: President Eisenhower sent the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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