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Senate Years of Service: 1923-1941; 1941-1947
Party: Farmer Laborite; Republican
SHIPSTEAD, Henrik, a Senator from Minnesota; born in Burbank, Kandiyohi County, Minn.,
January 8, 1881; attended the public schools at New London, Minn., and the
State normal school at St. Cloud, Minn.; graduated from the dental department
of Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill., in 1903 and practiced dentistry in
Glenwood, Minn., 1904-1920; mayor of Glenwood 1911-1913; member, State house of
representatives 1917; moved to Minneapolis in 1920 and resumed the practice of
dentistry; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Congress in 1918 and
for governor in 1920; elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket in 1922 to the United
States Senate; reelected in 1928, 1934, and as a Republican in 1940 and served
from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1946; chairman, Committee on Printing (Seventieth through Seventy-second
Congresses); died in Alexandria, Minn., June 26, 1960; interment in Kinkead
Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Lorentz,
Sister Mary Rene. “Henrik Shipstead: Minnesota Independent, 1923-1946.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Catholic University, 1963; Stuhler, Barbara. “The Political
Enigma of Henrik Shipstead.” In
Ten Men of Minnesota and American Foreign Policy 1898-1968,
pp. 76-98. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1973.
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