Francis Oscar Lindquist (September 27, 1869 – September 25, 1924) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Lindquist was born in Marinette, Wisconsin on September 27, 1869 to a Norwegian-born mother and a

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-born father and attended the common schools. He moved to Greenville, Michigan, in 1904 and engaged in the mail-order clothing and manufacturing business. He moved to

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in 1915 and became president of the Canada Mills Co., of

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and Michigan. Lindquist was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the

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, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915. He won the election in a landslide, using mail-order tactics to canvass voters. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914 and resumed the mail-order business in Grand Rapids. After the First World War, he returned to Greenville and supervised a correspondence-school course for sales people. In 1922, he lost to

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in the Republican primary election for

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. Lindquist died at age 54, on September 25, 1924, in Grand Rapids and is interred at Forest Home Cemetery in Greenville.

References

The Political Graveyard

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindquist, Francis Oscar 1869 births 1924 deaths People from Marinette, Wisconsin American people of Swedish descent American people of Norwegian descent Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan Politicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan People from Greenville, Michigan Businesspeople from Grand Rapids, Michigan 20th-century American legislators Burials in Michigan