Ancher Nelsen

A Representative from Minnesota. Born on a farm in Renville County, Near Buffalo Lake, Minn. , October 11, 1904. Graduated from high school in Brownton, Minn. , 1923. Member of the District No. 75 school board, 1926-1935. Member of the Lynn Township, Minn. , school board, 1929-1935. Farmer. Member of the Minnesota state senate, 1935-1949. Delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1948 and 1952. Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, 1953. Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration Program, Washington, D. C. , 1953-1956. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth Congress. Reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-December 31, 1974). Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974. Died on November 30, 1992, in Hutchinson, Minn. Interment in Oakland Cemetery, Hutchinson, Minn.