List: American Lutherans

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  • John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (October 1, 1746– October 1, 1807) was a clergyman, a soldier and a politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Post-Revolutionary eras in Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg was born to Anna and Henry Muhlenberg in Trappe, Pennsylvania, and received a classical education from the Academy of Philadelphia (now known as the University of Pennsylvania). Then, following his father's example, he studied at the University at Halle (Saale) in Germany from 1763 to 1766.
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  • John Anthony Quitman (b. September 1, 1798, Rhinebeck, New York– July 17, 1858) was an American politician and soldier. He served as Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 as a Whig and again from 1850 to 1851 as a Democrat.
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  • Albert Harold Quie (born September 18, 1923) is an American politician who served as the 35th Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1979, to January 3, 1983. Quie was born on his family's farm in Rice County near Dennison, Minnesota. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, and graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield in 1950 with a degree in political science. A Republican, Quie was a member of the Minnesota State Senate from 1955 to 1958. He was elected to the U.S.
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  • Orville Lothrop Freeman (May 9, 1918 – February 20, 2003) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was one of the founding members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and strongly influential in the merger of the pre-DFL Minnesota Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties.
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  • James Robert Cade (September 26, 1927 – November 27, 2007) was an American professor of medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. Cade is widely remembered as the leader of the research team that formulated the sports drink Gatorade.
  • Rodney Dwight "Rod" Grams (born February 4, 1948) served the state of Minnesota in both the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Grams was born in Princeton, Minnesota and attended Brown Institute, 1966–8, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, 1970–2, and Carroll College, 1974–5. Grams spent 23 years in the field of television and radio broadcasting before launching a career in politics. From 1982 to 1991 he was the senior news anchor at KMSP-TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
  • Edward John Thye (April 26, 1896 – August 28, 1969) was an American politician. He was the 26th Governor of Minnesota and a United States Senator from Minnesota
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  • Luther Wallace Youngdahl (May 29, 1896 – June 21, 1978) was an American politician and judge from Minnesota. He served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1942 to 1946, then as Minnesota's 27th Governor from January 8, 1947 to September 27, 1951, and finally as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 1951 until his death in 1978.
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  • Clyde Elmer Anderson (March 16, 1912 – January 12, 1998), more commonly known as C. Elmer Anderson, was an American politician. He was born in Brainerd, Minnesota and served as the 28th Governor of Minnesota from September 27, 1951 to January 5, 1955 as a Republican. He died in 1998 in Brainerd, Minnesota.
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  • Elmer Lee Andersen (June 17, 1909 – November 15, 2004) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and the 30th Governor of Minnesota, serving a single term from January 2, 1961 to March 25, 1963 as a Republican.
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  • Karl Fritjof Rolvaag (July 18, 1913 – December 20, 1990) was a U.S. politician and the son of Norwegian-American author and professor Ole E. Rølvaag. He served as the 31st Governor of Minnesota from March 25, 1963 to January 2, 1967 as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party. The 1962 election was held November 6, 1962, but the results of the race for governor were not known until a 139-day recount was completed in March 1963.
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  • Elmer Austin Benson (September 22, 1895 – March 13, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota.
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  • Hjalmar Petersen (January 2, 1890 – March 29, 1968) was an American politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Minnesota.
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  • Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus [pronounced PROICE] (August 28, 1883 – May 24, 1961) was an American politician. He served as the state auditor for Minnesota from January 5, 1915 to January 5, 1921 and as the 20th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1921 to January 6, 1925. He was a Republican.
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  • Adolph Olson Eberhart (June 23, 1870 – December 6, 1944) was an American politician, who served as the 17th Governor of Minnesota.
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  • Frank P. Zeidler (September 20, 1912 – July 7, 2006) was an American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Socialist Party of America, serving three terms from 1948 to 1960. He was the most recent Socialist mayor of any major American city.
  • Magnus Johnson (September 19, 1871 – September 13, 1936) was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives from Minnesota as a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party. Johnson was born near Karlstad, Sweden, and his family moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin in United States in 1891. (Johnson is the only Swedish-born person to serve in the U.S. Senate. ) They moved to Meeker County, Minnesota in 1893.
  • Henrik Shipstead (January 8, 1881 – June 26, 1960) was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947, from the state of Minnesota in the 68th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 72nd, 73rd, 74th, 75th, 76th, 77th, 78th, and 79th Congresses. He served first as a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from 1923 to 1941 and then as a Republican from 1941 to 1947. Few members of Congress in American history were more consistent in opposing U.S.
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  • Rupert Vance Hartke (May 31, 1919 – July 27, 2003) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977.
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  • Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (born August 1, 1930) is an American statesman and former career diplomat, who served briefly as the United States Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
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  • William John "Bill" Janklow (born September 13, 1939) is a former American politician with the Republican Party. He was the 27th and 30th Governor of South Dakota, and served in the United States House of Representatives for just over a year before he resigned after being convicted of manslaughter following an automobile accident. He is currently a lawyer and lobbyist.
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  • Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.
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  • Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.
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  • Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, triathlete, and libertarian-leaning Republican politician who served as the 29th Governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003. Since leaving office, Johnson has advocated libertarian ideals of limited government and non-interventionism. He is the subject of media speculation as a possible candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 election.
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  • Ragnvald Anderson Nestos (April 12, 1877 – July 15, 1942) was the 13th Governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1921 through 1925.
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