Odin Langen
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Odin Elsford Stanley Langen (January 5, 1913 – July 6, 1976) was a Representative from Minnesota.
Langen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 5, 1913, attended the public schools and Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1933 and 1934. He engaged in farming in Kittson County near Kennedy, Minnesota and associated with Production Marketing Administration in Kittson County, Minnesota, 1935 – 1950. Langen was a member of the Kennedy (Minnesota) School Board and served as its president 1948 – 1950. Langen also served on the South Red River Town Board 1947 – 1950, and in the Minnesota House of Representatives 1950 – 1958. Langen served as the Republican leader from 1957 to 1958 when he was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1971). After being an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress, Langen became Administrator of the Packers and Stockyards Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture from January 1971 to April 1972, when he resigned to resume farming pursuits in Kennedy, Minnesota. Odin Langen died July 6, 1976 and was interred in the Red River Cemetery, Red River, Minnesota. He was married to Lillian Clauson.
| Preceded by Coya Knutson |
U.S. Congressional Representative for the 9th Congressional District of Minnesota 1959 – 1963 |
Succeeded by District abolished |
| Preceded by Herman Carl Andersen |
United States Representative for the 7th Congressional District of Minnesota 1963 – 1971 |
Succeeded by Robert Bergland |
