Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th district
In office March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Solomon Comstock
Member of the Minnesota Senate
In office 1874–1878
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
In office 1868–1869
Personal details
Born
Knud Evanger
(1843-02-02)February 2, 1843 Voss, Sweden–Norway
Died
April 28, 1923(1923-04-28) (aged 80) Timonium, Maryland, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Other political affiliations
Democratic (before c. 1865)
Spouse
Nicolinæ Jacobson
Children
5
Alma mater
Albion Academy, Albion, Wisconsin
Profession
Lawyer
Military service
Allegiance
United States (Union)
Branch/service
Union Army
Years of service
1861-1865
Rank
Corporal
Unit
Black Hawk Rifles of Racine 4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars
American Civil War
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was a Norwegian-born American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislatures and to the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota, and served as the 12th governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895. Having served in the Senate for 28 years, 55 days, he is the longest-serving Senator in Minnesota's history.
Nelson is known for promoting the Nelson Act of 1889 to consolidate Minnesota's Ojibwe/Chippewa on a reservation in western Minnesota and break up their communal land by allotting it to individual households, with sales of the remainder to anyone, including non-natives. This was similar to the Dawes Act of 1887, which applied to Native American lands in the Indian Territory.
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the first time the state had two female U.S. senators at any one time. KnuteNelson is Minnesota's longest-serving senator (1895–1923). Minnesota is one...
for sale and settlement by European settlers. Minnesota congressmen KnuteNelson pushed for the allotment of Ojibwe lands in Northern Minnesota and sale...
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a common platform for all these radical groups to stand on". Senator KnuteNelson, Republican of Minnesota, responded by enlarging Bolshevism's embrace...
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aftermath of the Civil War. On August 22, 1912, Smalls wrote to U.S. Senator KnuteNelson: "I never lose sight of the fact that had it not been for the Republican...
Senate, he advanced to the office of lieutenant governor under Republican KnuteNelson, whose election to the U.S. Senate moved Clough into the governor's office...
Dillingham) Banking and Currency (Chairman: Robert L. Owen; Ranking Member: KnuteNelson) Canadian Relations (Chairman: John K. Shields; Ranking Member: George...
was chaired by Senator Lee Slater Overman and also included Senators KnuteNelson of Minnesota, Thomas Sterling of South Dakota, William H. King of Utah...
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John W. Weeks) Commerce (Chairman: Duncan U. Fletcher; Ranking Member: KnuteNelson) Conservation of National Resources (Chairman: James K. Vardaman; Ranking...
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