Charles August Lindbergh
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Short Biography
source: RN Baur estate
Charles August Lindbergh, father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, ran for MN governor in 1918. He was supported by the Nonpartisan League (The Nonpartisan League was viewed with suspicion by the MN Commission of Public Safety during World War I, because the organization favored isolationism and its members were largely European immigrants.
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Timeline of Life Events
- Born in Sweden
- Emigrated to US with parents.They settled near Melrose in Stearns County.
- Lindbergh entered the law school at the University of Michigan.
- Graduated from Lindbergh graduated from the law school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.
- Set up law practise in Little Falls, MN
- Married Mary LaFond. The couple had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy.
- Mary died after unsuccessful surgery.
- Married Evangeline Lodge Land, with whom he had one son: Charles Augustus, the future aviator.
- Campaigned for the Republican nomination for Sixth District Congressman. Identifying himself as a progressive, he beat the incumbent and went on to win the seat in the general election.
- Served as Sixth District Congressman. Identifying himself as a progressive.
- Served as Sixth District Congressman. Identifying himself as a progressive.
- Served as Sixth District Congressman. Identifying himself as a progressive.
- Served as Sixth District Congressman. Identifying himself as a progressive.
- WWI starts.
- He argued that only the bankers and other “war profiteers” would benefit from a war with Germany.
- Supports the Gore–McLemore resolution.
- Chooses not to defend his House seat in order to pursue an unsuccessful run for senator.
- Part of a small minority that voted against arming US merchant vessels.
- Legislature created the Commission of Public Safety in April to govern the state for the duration of the war.
- Nonpartisan League began a major drive to elect its candidates in the 1918 elections. Lindbergh became the league’s candidate in the Republican primary against Governor Burnquist. The MCPS branded the NPL as “disloyal” and encouraged local Home Guard units and county sheriffs to disrupt the Lindbergh campaign. Lindbergh was hung in effigy, barred from speaking, pelted with rotten eggs, shot at, and briefly jailed. Although Lindbergh carried thirty counties, Burnquist won, with 199,326 votes to Lindbergh’s 150,626.
- The 1918 campaign encouraged farmers and trade unionists to build the coalition that formed the Farmer-Labor Party. Lindbergh played a role in the development of this new party.
- The Nonpartisan League was viewed with suspicion during World War I, because the organization favored isolationism and its members were largely European immigrants.
- Ran unsuccessfully in the Farmer-Labor primary for US Senator.
- Died while campaigning in the Farmer-Labor Party’s primary for governor.
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