Haldor Boen

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Haldor Erickson Boen (January 2, 1851–July 23, 1912) was born in Sondre Aurdal, Valders, Norway; he immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Mower County, Minnesota. He attended the St. Cloud Normal School in 1869 and 1870. Boen relocated to Fergus Falls in Otter Tail County on January 1, 1871. In 1872 he was employed in the auditor’s office, computing the first taxes levied in Otter Tail County. He taught in the common schools of that county from 1874 to 1879. He acted as justice of the peace from 1875–1900. In 1880 he was elected county commissioner. He acted as register of deeds 1888–1892; He was elected as a Populist to the fifty-third Congress, representing the newly-created Minnesota's 7th congressional district, March 4, 1893–March 3, 1895; he was unsuccessful in his reelection bid in 1894 to the fifty-fourth congress. Boen then became editor of the Fergus Falls Globe and resumed agricultural pursuits in Otter Tail County. He died in Aurdal Township in Otter Tail County and was interred in Aurdal Cemetery, near Fergus Falls, Minnesota.^[1]

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Preceded by —

U.S. Representative from the 7th Congressional District of Minnesota 1893 – 1895

Succeeded by Frank Eddy