Henrik
Shipstead was born in Burbank, Minnesota, on 8th January, 1881. After
graduating from Northwestern University, Chicago, in 1903, Shipstead
practiced dentistry in Glenwood, Minnesota. A member of the Farmer-Labor
Party, was mayor of Glenwood between 1911 and 1913.
Shipstead
was elected to Congress in 1922. Over the next few years he worked
closely with William
Borah,
Gerald Nye, Bronson
Cutting, Lynn Frazier, John
Elmer Thomas, Tom Amlie, Robert
LaFollette Jr., Burton
K. Wheeler and
other progressives in the Senate.
In 1940 Shipstead joined the Republican
Party. He remained in the Senate until 1947. Henrik Shipstead
died in Alexandria, Minnesota, on 26th June, 1960.
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