Abstract The Contested election of Elmer L. Andersen to office of governor of State of Minnesota collection contains a twenty-volume transcript of the proceedings for the hearing held in Ramsey County District Court concerning the contested election. The hearings occurred between December 1962 and March 1963. Following the hearings, Karl F. Rolvaag, a candidate for the Democratic-Farmer-Laborite Party (D.F.L.), gained a ninety-one-vote edge, and as a result, Rolvaag replaced Andersen as Minnesota’s...

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The Arlen Ingolf Erdahl collection contains materials about Erdahl’s seven years in the Minnesota House of Representatives and his campaign for Minnesota Secretary of State in 1970. However, the majority of the collection is related to Erdahl’s job as a state representative. The collection is arranged in chronological order from 1963 through 1970. Each year has been divided between into three series of information: Correspondence, Congressional Records, and Miscellaneous documents.

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The John E. Regan scrapbook collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings pertaining to his attempts at winning various public positions in Minnesota. In addition, the collection contains photos, affidavits, and campaign literature. Regan ran successfully for the state legislature and unsuccessfully in a gubernatorial election and an election for the United States Senate.

Abstract The Robert M. Regan collection contains an audiocassette tape, a CD duplicate of the audiocassette, and a transcript of an oral history interview conducted in 1977 between Regan and Bruce L. Larson and Karin Thiem at the Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Mankato, Minnesota. In the interview, Regan recalled the political career of John E. Regan, Robert Regan's father, who was a state representative from Blue Earth County, Minnesota in 1931 -1932. Regan discussed national politics, the...