List: People from Northfield, Minnesota

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•  Paul Wellstone

  Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002) was a two-term U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. Before being elected to the Senate in 1990, he was a professor of political science at Carleton College. Wellstone was a liberal and a leading spokesman for the liberal wing of the national Democratic Party.

  

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•  Lucius Roy Holbrook

  Lucius Roy Holbrook (April 30, 1875–October 19, 1952) was a Major General who commanded of the United States Army's Philippine Department from 1936 to 1938. While stationed at Boise, Idaho, Holbrook met Henrietta Coffin, (January 7, 1877 – March 28, 1965), the daughter of Frank R. Coffin, a merchant and baker and Charlotte Irene (Quivey) Coffin. They were married on June 7, 1899, at the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Mrs.

  

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•  Edward John Thye

  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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•  Karl Rolvaag

  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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•  Siri Hustvedt

  Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American writer. She has made her name mainly as a novelist, but has also produced a book of poetry, and a number of short stories and essays. She is the author of The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), The Sorrows of an American (2008), and The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010)

  

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•  Peter Agre

  Peter Agre (born January 29, 1949) is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In February 2009, Peter Agre was inducted as the 163rd president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nation's largest scientific organization.

  

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•  Sheila Wellstone

  Sheila Ison Wellstone (August 18, 1944– October 25, 2002) was an advocate for human rights, the environment, and peace. She was married to U.S. Senator from Minnesota Paul Wellstone. Wellstone focused much of her work on domestic violence, assisting survivors and pursuing policies to support its prevention. In 2002, she considered running for Governor of Minnesota. However, she died in a plane crash along with her husband and daughter Marcia later the same year.

  

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•  Ole Edvart Rølvaag

  Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English-speaking orthography) (April 22, 1876 - November 5, 1931) was an American novelist and professor. He became well known for his writings on the Norwegian American immigrant experience. Rolvaag is most frequently associated with Giants in the Earth, his award winning, epic novel of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in Dakota Territory.

  

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•  Alexandra Holden

  Alexandra Holden (born April 30, 1977) is an American film and television actress.

  

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•  Paulette Carlson

  Paulette Tenae Carlson (born October 11, 1952, Northfield, Minnesota) is a country singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s as the lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101. With Highway 101, she charted four #1 hit singles, seven Top 10 hits, a gold album and two back-to-back wins for Vocal Group of the Year from both the ACM and the CMA Awards in 1988 and 1989.

  

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•  Cyril Archibald

  Cyril Archibald (1837 – April 13, 1914) was an Ontario political figure. He represented Stormont in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1872 to 1878. He was born in Osnabruck Township in Upper Canada in 1837, the son of John Archibald and Eliza Dixon. He was educated at Upper Canada College and later served in the local militia. In 1881, he married Gertrude Wood. Archibald served as reeve of Osnabruck from 1866 to 1869.

  

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•  Joel Heatwole

  Joel Prescott Heatwole (August 22, 1856 – April 4, 1910) was a U.S. House Representative from Minnesota. He was born at Waterford Mills, Indiana. He attended the public schools, and learned the printer’s trade. Later he taught school and became superintendent of the Millersburg, Indiana School District. He left that vocation and was employed by the Millersburg local newspaper in 1876 and afterward became editor and proprietor. He moved to Minnesota in 1882 and settled in Glencoe.

  

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•  David Bly

  David Bly (born January 8, 1952, in Dubuque, Iowa) is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 25B, which includes portions of Rice and Scott counties in the southeastern part of the state. Communities in the district include Belle Plaine, Bridgewater, Cedar Lake, Dundas, Erin, Forest, Helena, Lonsdale, Nerstrand, Northfield, Shieldsville, Webster, Wheatland and Wheeling, as well as several townships.

  

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•  Marilyn Sellars

  Marilyn Sellars is an American country music and gospel singer who had several hits during the mid 1970s on Mega Records, most notably the original version of "One Day At A Time" in 1974.

  

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•  Ron Hansen (American football)

  Ronald Melrich Hansen (February 10, 1932 – March 15, 1993) was an American football guard and linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Minnesota and was drafted in the 28th round of the 1954 NFL Draft.

  

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•  Thomas M. Neuville

  Thomas "Tom" M. Neuville (born January 31, 1950, in Marinette, Wisconsin) is a former member of the U.S. State of Minnesota Senate from District 25, which includes the northern half of Rice County, all of Le Sueur County, the southern part of Scott County, and the eastern third of Sibley County. He was first elected on November 6, 1990 and served five full terms and part of a sixth, resigning effective January 1, 2008.

  

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•  Chad Setterstrom

  Chad Aaron Setterstrom (born June 13, 1980 in Northfield, Minnesota) is an American football guard who is currently a free agent. He signed with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2003. He played college football at Northern Iowa.

  

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•  Lloyd Hustvedt

  Lloyd Hustvedt (April 18, 1922 – February 2, 2004) was an American professor and scholar of Norwegian-American history. Lloyd Hustvedt was born and raised in the Sogn Valley in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Hustvedt finished his B.A. degree at St. Olaf College with a major in Norwegian. Hustvedt received his M.A. degree from the University of Minnesota and earned his Ph.D. degree in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin. In 1954, Hustvedt became a professor at St.

  

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