Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's at-large district
In office January 3, 1943 – May 30, 1950
Preceded by
Charles R. Robertson
Succeeded by
Fred G. Aandahl
In office March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1941
Preceded by
Olger B. Burtness
Succeeded by
Charles R. Robertson
11th Attorney General of North Dakota
In office 1921–1921
Governor
Lynn Frazier Ragnvald Nestos
Preceded by
William Langer
Succeeded by
Sveinbjorn Johnson
Personal details
Born
William Frederick Lemke
(1878-08-13)August 13, 1878 Albany, Minnesota, U.S.
Died
May 30, 1950(1950-05-30) (aged 71) Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
Political party
Republican (NPL faction) Independent (1940) Union (1935–1936) Progressive (1912)
Spouse
Isabelle McIntyre
Children
3
Education
University of North Dakota (BA) Georgetown University Yale University (LLB)
William Frederick Lemke (August 13, 1878 – May 30, 1950) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party. He was also the Union Party's presidential candidate in the 1936 presidential election.
William Frederick Lemke (August 13, 1878 – May 30, 1950) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives...
Democratic candidate, Charles Joseph Vogel, and Republican/NPL Congressman WilliamLemke, who declined to run for reelection to Congress in order to run for...
presidential nomination. The populist Union Party nominated Congressman WilliamLemke for president. The election took place as the Great Depression entered...
newspaper publisher Frank Knox of Illinois. Also running that year was WilliamLemke of the short-lived Union Party, and his running mate Thomas C. O'Brien...
candidate. Eugene V. Debs 1912 Socialist 901,551 Third-party candidate. WilliamLemke 1936 Union 892,378 Third-party candidate. Norman Thomas 1932 Socialist...
run for president was U.S. Representative WilliamLemke who ran as the Union Party's nominee in 1936, but Lemke was not born in the state. The first person...
support of the short-lived Union Party, a third party effort which ran WilliamLemke of North Dakota for President in 1936, but under his leadership, the...
Presidential candidate in any free or postbellum state county since 1936 when WilliamLemke reached over twenty-eight percent of the vote in the North Dakota counties...
Congressman Robert "Fats" Everett, who had died in office. Their candidate, William J. Davis, out-polled Republican Leonard Dunavant, with 16,375 votes to...
"big-bellied, red-necked plutocrats" for the war. He and fellow party leader WilliamLemke received support for the League from isolationist German-Americans....
(1983). 174 pp. Blackorby, Edward C. Prairie Rebel: The Public Life of WilliamLemke (1963), a radical leader in 1930s online edition Collins, Michael L...
face any opposition in the election, although one presidential elector, William Plumer, cast his vote for John Quincy Adams. The Democratic-Republican...
priest” Father Charles Coughlin, who nominated local Representative WilliamLemke as the presidential candidate of the new “Union Party” on June 9, whose...
population of their states. Three-time Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan opposed a highly controversial resolution at the 1924 Democratic...
broke and was setting up a presidential campaign on the left in 1936 WilliamLemke, North Dakota, Picked up Huey Long support in 1936 Norman Thomas, frequent...
(1923–1941) William Langer (1941–1959) United States representatives: John Miller Baer (1917–1921) Usher L. Burdick (1949–1959) WilliamLemke (1933–1941;...
candidate to finish even second in any non-Southern county since 1936 when WilliamLemke finished ahead of Alf Landon in the North Dakota counties of Bottineau...
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