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Show Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota ... Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota Minne-sota likes his Job as senator. " Taln't necessary for me to say it; I've been holding It down for twenty-seven years," he nays with a chuckle. The senator is old enough to know his own uilud -he wus born in 1843 and his Job is safe until 1925, anyway. In fact, there Is only one senator whose continuous terra of service is longer Lodge of Massachusetts, who entered the senate in 1893, two years before Nelson. The senior senator from Minnesota Min-nesota Is a notable figure in the upper rhamber. He's a veteran of the Civil war and he's chairman of the Judl-ilary Judl-ilary committee and a member of the fommerce, printing and rules committees. commit-tees. Senator Nelson was born in Noiv vay and came to the United States in 849 with his widowed mother. They ame over in a two-masted schooner md were seven weeks on the voyage. if. " mry n-acnea i,nicogo in isoo, making the trip by canal boat and from Buffalo y steamer. The cholera was raging in Chicago-then a city of less than W.000 people and little Knute caught it When he recovered his mothei hired out as a housekeeper and he sold papers and went to school. Then mother and son went to Wisconsin for two years and in 18?2 brought up in Minnesota. He enlisted In 1801 and served through to '64. He was voumled In the assault on Port Hudson and taken prisoner. In 1807 he was admitted to the Minnesota bar. After holding various offices he served two terms ss governor and three terms in the house. |