Raymond John Albrecht (April 2, 1916 – July 24, 2006) was an American

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer mig ...

and

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. Albrecht was born in Penn Township,

McLeod County, Minnesota McLeod County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,771. Its county seat is Glencoe. McLeod County comprises the Hutchinson, MN Micropolitan Statistical Area and is part of the Minneapolis-St. ...

. Albrecht lived with his wife and family in

Brownton, Minnesota Brownton is a city in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 762 at the 2010 census. History Brownton was platted in 1877, and named for Alonzo L. Brown, the original owner of the town site. A post office has been in oper ...

and was a dairy and grain farmer. Albrecht served in the

Minnesota House of Representatives The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are 134 members, twice as many as the Minnesota Senate. Floor sessions are held in the north wing of the State Capitol in Saint Pa ...

from 1975 to 1980 and was a

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1916 births 2006 deaths People from McLeod County, Minnesota Farmers from Minnesota Republican Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives {{Minnesota-politician-stub