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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813950603321

Autore

Helmes Winifred G (Winifred Gertrude), <1913->

Titolo

John A. Johnson, the people's governor : a political biography / / by Winifred G. Helmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1949]

ISBN

0-8166-5784-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 324 pages) : illustrations, portrait

Disciplina

923.273

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; I. HERITAGE AND YOUTH; II. COUNTRY EDITOR; III. DEBUT IN POLITICS; IV. VICTORY AND DEFEAT; V. PRELUDE TO 1904; VI. THE ELECTION OF 1904; VII. GOVERNOR JOHNSON; VIII. A SECOND TERM; IX. JOHNSON FOR PRESIDENT?; X. THE PEOPLE'S GOVERNOR; XI. MINNESOTA MOURNS; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first native-born governor of Minnesota, and the only Democrat to have been elected to that office three times, was also the first Minnesotan to have a presidential nomination within his grasp. This study of a man who was, perhaps, the state’s most b.