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This Day in Minnesota History

July 21, 1879

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Joseph A. A. Burnquist is born in Dayton, Iowa. Between 1915 and 1921 he would serve as the nineteenth governor of the state and lead the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. He died in Minneapolis on January 12, 1961.

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