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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Security Resources Board in 1949, nomination subsequently withdrawn; member of the Federal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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