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Christian Theodor Christianson
Guvernør i Minnesota Christian Theodor Christianson (12.9.1883 i Dawson, Lac Qui Parle, Minnesota -10.12.1948) var sønn av Robert Christianson (27.7.1858 i Goodhue County, Minnesota- 13.10.1920) og Emma Tollefsdatter Ronning (4.10.1858 i Budal, Sør-Trøndelag - 31.5.1889 i Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota)
Gift 6. april 1907 med Ruth Eleanor Donaldson (31.1.1886 i Bridgewater Township, Rice County, Minnesota, -16.8.1944), datter av James Fulton Donaldson (2.12.1855 i Bridgewater, Rice County, MN - 3.12.1904 i Rice County, MN) og Eudora Thompson (3.11.1858 i Rice County, MN - 1.8.1939 i Saint Paul, Ramsay County, MN)
Barn:
- Robert James Christianson (1908-1981)
- Paul Theodore Christianson (1913-1955)
Han var advokat og guvernør i Minnesota 1925-31.
Gift 2 30. mai 1946 med Mayme M. Bundy.
Biografi engelsk;
CHRISTIANSON, Theodore, a Representative from Minnesota; born on a farm near Lac qui Parle, Lac qui Parle County, Minn., September 12, 1883; attended the rural schools and Dawson (Minn.) High School; was graduated from the arts college of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1906 and from its law school in 1909; principal of the public school at Robbindale, Minn., 1906-1909;
He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Dawson, Lac qui Parle County, Minn.; also owner and publisher of the Dawson Sentinel 1909-1925; president of the village council at Dawson, Minn., in 1910 and 1911;
Member of the State house of representatives 1915-1925; Governor of Minnesota 1925-1931; manufacturing executive in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1931 and 1932; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937);
was not a candidate for renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1936; served as secretary-manager of the National Association of Retail Grocers, Chicago, Ill., 1937-1939 and as public-relations counsel for the National Association of Retail Druggists, Chicago, Ill., 1939-1945; editor of the National Association of Retail Druggists Journal, Chicago, Ill., from 1945 until his death; died in Dawson, Minn., on December 9, 1948; interment in Sunset Memorial Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dagfinn Refseth forteller:
Guvernørens besteforeldre var fra Gausdal og Sauherad i Norge:
- Ingeborg “Emily” Skallerud Holtan (10 Aug 1830 i Telemark fylke, Norway- 3 Oct 1921 i Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota)
- Ole O. Holtan (14 Mar 1830 i Flesberg, Flesberg kommune, Buskerud fylke-8 May 1908 i Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota)
Søskenbarnet Adolph Ronning ble en berømt oppfinner.
Se også
Kilde
- Dagfinn Refseth: Fra Budalen til Amerika. Emigranter 1850-1930
- Per O Rød. Singsåsboka III, page 482
- Find a grave