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Show SENATOR NELSON ROUNDS OUT 70 YEARS I if t X $ Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, Minne-sota, one of the most picturesque figures fig-ures in the United States senate, and likewise one of the most influential of the Republican members of that body, celebrated his seventieth birthday birth-day February 2. Senator Nelson, whose present term will expire March 4, has just been re-elected by the Minnesota legislature for another term of six years. In the next congress con-gress he will rank among the veterans vet-erans of the senate in point of service serv-ice as well as age. Of the entire membership of the senate as it will be constituted afte' March 4 only two members Lodge of Massachusetts and Perkins of California Cali-fornia will have seen longer service in the upper house than the senior senator from Minnesota. Both Senators Sen-ators Lodge and Perkins came to the senate in 1S93, two years before Senator Sen-ator Nelson made his appearance. The career of Senator Nelson is of much more than ordinary interest, and in several respects unique. The story of his life has many of the salient features of a romance, including the picturesque and unusual. Born on a little farm near the City of Bergen, in the southwestern part of Norway, he accompanied his widowed mother to America when six years old. The family was practically penniless. |