Independent Voters Association (N.D.)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Ralph D. Ward Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 354
Abstract
Mr. Ward was a North Dakota rancher and banker. The collection contains correspondence dealing chiefly with farming, ranching, legal and financial matters, land transactions, politics and banking; and biographical stories by his uncle Henry Ward, about pioneer life in in Dakota Territory to include Black Hills gold mining, 1881 Mandan flood, life in Owego colony in 1873, and hauling freight in a blizzard. There is also clippings and articles on Ward's father-in-law, Reuben N. Stevens, and the...
Dates:
1875-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Ralph D. Ward Papers
S. A. Olsness Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 220-Mss 1596.9
Abstract
North Dakota's Insurance Commissioner from 1916 to 1934 when he was defeated by the supporters of William Langer.
Dates:
1883-1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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S. A. Olsness Papers
Staale Hendrickson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 839-Mss 1596.8
Abstract
Served in the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1909 and from 1913 to 1917 as a Republican and member of the Independent Voters Association.
Dates:
1899-1944.
Theodore G. Nelson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 631
Abstract
Organized the Independent Voters Association and in 1921 helped to orchestrate the first recall in the nation of a governor.
Dates:
1906-1960.
William Langer Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 404
Abstract
Collecton of newspaper clippings, Christmas Cards, correspondence, speeches, and pamphlets related to William Langer, Morton County States Attorney (1914-1916) North Dakota Attorney General (1916-1920), North Dakota Governor (1933-1934, 1937-1938) and U.S. senator (1941-1959).
Dates:
1933-1959.