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North Dakota Nonpartisan League.

 Organization

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

“By the Light of the Moon,” A Play by Timothy J. Ray

 Collection
Identifier: SC 696
Abstract Play written by Ray as class project at NDSU. It involves Minnie Craig giving a campaign speech in 1923 in north central North Dakota while making her first run for public office, the North Dakota House of Representatives. Other main character is Ina Brickner (later Ina Cook), a Nonpartisan League volunteer from Fargo, N.D. Mrs. Craig did win the election and became the first woman elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives.
Dates: 1992

Charles G. Bangert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1204
Abstract Iowa native who received his law degree through correspondence courses and served as city attorney of Enderlin, ND for 40 years as well as being active with the Enderlin Independent, the local paper, and serving as a state senator.
Dates: 1900-1966

Edwin F. Ladd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 90
Abstract First chemistry professor at North Dakota Agricultural College (now NDSU), later president of NDAC, before becoming a U.S. Senator for North Dakota.
Dates: 1890-1966

Fargo Forum Negative Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Photo 2035

Henry R. Martinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 30
Abstract Socialist who joined the Nonpartisan League before beginning a career as a poet and movie consultant.
Dates: 1902-1961

John P. Meadors Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 650
Abstract Correspondence, typed copy of items relating to Meador taken from a Richland County, Mont. history. Briefly mentions his mother teaching school, Meador's participation in an election, sheepshearing, construction of a pontoon bridge, purchase of a Buick in 1908. Also includes clippings of his obituary.
Dates: 1954

John Zurcher Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1923
Abstract Typed summary of an interview with Bill G. Reid concerning Zurcher's mother and sisters who emigrated with him from Switzerland in 1892 to Jackson, Minn. and his life in McHenry County, N.D. Includes mention of his mother's remarriage, losing the farm at Jackson, Minn., settling at Ulen, Minn., traveling to McHenry County, N.D. and back to Ulen, building his farmstead, poisoning gophers, his involvement in McHenry County government, bridge repairs, Nonpartisan League, election to the N.D....
Dates: 1972

Martin O. Thompson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 123
Abstract States Attorney (1915-1922) and Judge (1923-1948) of Ransom County, N.D.
Dates: 1906-1948.

Minnie D. Craig Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 282
Abstract Minnie Craig was elected in 1923 to the North Dakota House of Representatives where she served for six terms, culminating in 1933, as the first woman speaker of a House of Representatives in the nation. The Minnie D. Craig Papers consists mainly of her handwritten autobiography and two scrapbooks. The 99 page autobiography is incomplete and ends about 1946. The first scrapbook of newspaper clippings deals with Mrs. Craig’s political career in North Dakota, while the other deals with the Craig...
Dates: 1904-1955.

Nonpartisan League Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 51
Abstract Political party founded by A.C. Townley whose objective was to protect the farmers through government intervention.
Dates: 1917-1964.