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HAUGEN, Gilbert Nelson

HAUGEN, Gilbert Nelson
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HAUGEN, Gilbert Nelson
1859–1933

Office

Representative

State/Territory

Iowa

Party

Republican

Congress(es)

56th (1899–1901), 57th (1901–1903), 58th (1903–1905), 59th (1905–1907), 60th (1907–1909), 61st (1909–1911), 62nd (1911–1913), 63rd (1913–1915), 64th (1915–1917), 65th (1917–1919), 66th (1919–1921), 67th (1921–1923), 68th (1923–1925), 69th (1925–1927), 70th (1927–1929), 71st (1929–1931), 72nd (1931–1933)

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Biography

HAUGEN, Gilbert Nelson, a Representative from Iowa; born near Orfordville, Rock County, Wis., April 21, 1859; attended the rural schools; moved to Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1873 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; attended Breckenridge College, Decorah, Iowa, and Academic and Commercial College, Janesville, Wis.; engaged in various enterprises, principally real estate and banking; moved to Northwood, Iowa, in 1886 and engaged in banking; treasurer of Worth County, Iowa, 1887-1893; in 1890 organized the Northwood Banking Co. and became its president; member of the State house of representatives 1894-1898; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixtieth Congress), Committee on Agriculture (Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses); co-sponsor of the McNary-Haugen farm bill in 1927; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; died at Northwood, Iowa, July 18, 1933; interment in Sunset Rest Cemetery, Northwood, Iowa.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Cornell University Library
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Ithaca, NY
Papers: In the National Forestry Program Committee records, 1920-1928; 1945-1947, 2 cubic feet. Haugen included among correspondents.

Montauk

Clermont, IA
Papers: 1899-1911. 50 letters. In William Larrabee collection Congressional papers and correspondence. Finding aid in repository.

State Historical Society of Iowa

Des Moines, IA
Papers: 15 items in Alonzo Abernethy and Politics collections. Letters and campaign literature. Finding aid in repository.

State Historical Society of Iowa

Iowa City, IA
Papers: 1882-1940. 81 feet. Personal, business, and political papers. Unpublished finding aid in repository.

University of California, Berkeley
Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA
Papers: In the Joseph Grinnell papers, 1884-1938, 10.5 linear feet. Correspondents include Haugen.
Papers: In the Audubon Association of the Pacific records, 1917-1945, 1.5 linear feet. Haugen included among correspondents.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Contested Election Case of D. D. Murphy v. G.N. Haugen from the Fourth Congressional District of Iowa. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.

Harstad, Peter T., and Bonnie Lindemann. Gilbert N. Haugen: Norwegian-American Farm Politician. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1992.

Haugen, Gilbert Nelson. The agricultural bill. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900].

Michael, Bonnie. "Gilbert N. Haugen. Apprentice Congressman." Palimpsest 59 (July/August 1978): 118-29.

Murphy, Daniel D. Contested Election Case of D. D. Murphy v. G.N. Haugen from the Fourth Congressional District of Iowa. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.

Schacht, John N. Three Progressives From Iowa: Gilbert N. Haugen, Herbert C. Hoover, Henry A. Wallace. Iowa City: Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, 1980.

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