Ernest Lundeen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ernest Lundeen

American politician

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1878

Place of Birth: Brooklyn Township, South Dakota, United States

Date of Death: 31-Aug-1940

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Ernest Lundeen

  • Ernest Lundeen (August 4, 1878 – August 31, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician. Lundeen was born and raised on his father's homestead in Brooklyn Township of Lincoln County near Beresford, South Dakota.
  • His father, C.
  • H.
  • Lundeen, was an early pioneer who was credited with the naming of Brooklyn Township as well as with helping to establish the school and other institutions located there.
  • Most of Ernest Lundeen's brothers and sisters died during a diphtheria epidemic during the 1880s.
  • In 1896, Lundeen and his family moved to Harcourt, Iowa and then to Minnesota.
  • He graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1901 and then studied law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
  • In 1906, he was admitted to the bar. Lundeen served in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.
  • He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives 1911–14.
  • He then served as a Republican from Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives, from March 4, 1917 to March 3, 1919 in the 65th congress.
  • As representative, he was one of 50 Congressman to vote against the declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917.
  • He served as a Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party member in the House from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1937 in the 73rd and 74th congresses.
  • He was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party.
  • He served from January 3, 1937 in the 75th and 76th congresses, until his death. He remained sympathetic to Germany.
  • According to Alton Frye, he had close ties to George Sylvester Viereck, a leading German agent.
  • Viereck often used Lundeen's office, and "sometimes dictated speeches for Lundeen, openly using the Senator's telephones to obtain material from Hans Thomsen at the [German] embassy."On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a passenger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington, D.C.
  • to Detroit.
  • The plane, a Douglas DC-3, flew into turbulence from a thunderstorm.
  • The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia and all 25 persons on board were killed, including Senator Lundeen.

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