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Senate Years of Service: 1940-1945 Party: Democrat
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WALLGREN, Monrad Charles, a Representative and a Senator from Washington; born in Des Moines,
Iowa, April 17, 1891; moved with his parents to Galveston, Tex., in 1894 and to
Everett, Wash., in 1901; attended the public schools and business college of
Everett, Wash.; graduated from Washington State School of Optometry at Spokane
in 1914; engaged in the retail jewelry and optical business 1915-1932; during
the First World War served in the Coast Artillery Corps of the Washington
National Guard 1917-1919; adjutant of the Third Battalion of the Washington
National Guard 1921-1922; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the
three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his
resignation, effective December 19, 1940; elected November 5, 1940, as a
Democrat to the United States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1941;
subsequently appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Lewis B. Schwellenbach in the term ending January 3,
1941, and served from December 19, 1940, to January 9, 1945, when he resigned;
Governor of Washington 1945-1949; nominated by President Harry S. Truman as
chairman of National Security Resources Board in 1949, nomination subsequently
withdrawn; member of the Federal Power Commission 1950-1951; engaged in citrus
growing in the Coachella Valley, Calif., and the development of uranium claims
at Twenty-nine Palms, Calif.; died in Olympia, Wash., September 18, 1961, due
to injuries suffered in an automobile accident; interment in Evergreen
Cemetery, Everett, Wash.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography.
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