Ole J. Kvale

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Ole Juulson Kvale (February 6, 1869 – September 11, 1929) (father of Paul John Kvale), was a Representative from Minnesota; born near Decorah, Winnesheik County, Iowa, February 6, 1869; attended the rural schools; was graduated from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, in 1890, from Luther Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1893, and from the University of Chicago in 1914; was ordained to the ministry in 1894 and served in Orfordville, Wisconson, from 1894 to 1917, and in Benson, Swift County, Minnesota, from 1917 until elected to Congress. Kvale was unsuccessful candidate as an Independent Republican for election in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; but was elected as a Farmer-Labor candidate to the Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death near Otter Tail Lake, Minnesota, on September 11, 1929; interment in Benson Cemetery, Benson.

Preceded by Andrew Volstead

U.S. Representative from the 7th Congressional District of Minnesota 1923 – 1929

Succeeded by Paul John Kvale