Title
Carl M. Iverson Interview, 1973
Files
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Document Type
Book
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Interviewer
Marcia Olson
Interviewee
Carl M. Iverson
Date Recorded
8-16-1973
Date Digital
6-24-2020
Location Recorded
Farmer's Equity, Ashby, Minnesota
County
Grant County
Keywords
Farm life--Minnesota; Pomme de Terre (Minn.); Norwegian Americans; Schools--Minnesota--Grant County; Minnesota Nonpartisan League; Cooperative societies; Minnesota. Legislature; Legislators--Minnesota; Politicians--Minnesota; Depressions--1929; University of Minnesota Morris; Minnesota--Politics and government--20th century
Description
Carl Iverson was born in 1894 in Ashby, Minnesota. He was a long-serving representative in the Minnesota Legislature (1919-1966). He served in the House (1919-30 and from 1939-1966) and the Senate (1931-1934). He was first elected as part of the Minnesota Nonpartisan League.
In this interview, Carl Iverson discusses farming operations in 1868, the Pomme de Terre fort and station schooling, the Non-Partisan League, the organization of the Cooperative, the Farmer-Labor Party, the Depression, farm mortgages, dust storms, the State Legislature, state income tax, the University of Minnesota Morris, Medicare, no-fault insurance, probate court, the planned experimental city near Ashby, and farmer's holiday.
Run Time
01:16:18
Language
English
Original Format
Reel-to-Reel
Digital Identifier
GCIverson01
Repository
West Central Minnesota Historical Research Center (WCMHRC)
Local Identifier
292
Recommended Citation
Iverson, Carl M., "Carl M. Iverson Interview, 1973" (1973). All Minnesota Oral Histories. 35.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/mnoralhistories/35
Primo Type
Audio