Gudmunder Grimson (November 20, 1878 – June 22, 1965) was a justice of the

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from September 19, 1949, to December 31, 1958.North Dakota Supreme Court Justices page for Gudmunder Grimson
Born in

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, Grimson was brought by his family to the

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in 1882. They settled in what would eventually become

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, where Grimson attended and then taught in the public schools. Beginning in 1898, Milton attended the

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in intermittently, receiving a

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in 1904 and an

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in 1905. He was a Fellow of the

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in 1905 and 1906, and received his law degree from the University of North Dakota in 1906.

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