Thomas D. Schall was twice a self-made man: first in rising from rural poverty to become a lawyer, second in recovering from an accidental blinding to serve twenty years in Congress.
Gen. John W. Vessey Jr. (standing) meeting with Caspar Weinberger, President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush, and Robert McFarlane in the Oval Office of the White House, January 20, 1981. Public domain.
Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. giving a speech in 1923. In that year, Lindbergh’s campaigned for the Farmer Labor Party's nomination for US senator. He placed third.
Charles August (C. A.) Lindbergh, father of the aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was a Little Falls lawyer who represented Minnesota’s Sixth District in the United States Congress for five terms. He was a leader of the progressive wing of the Republican Party and opposed the United States’ entry into World War I. As the nominee of the Nonpartisan League, he waged an unsuccessful campaign to unseat Governor Joseph Burnquist in the bitterly fought 1918 gubernatorial Republican primary.
Painting of Randolph Probstfield during his term in the Minnesota State Senate, 1891. Probstfield family photographs (Box 3), Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead.