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Author Andersen, Elmer L., 1909-2004.

Title A man's reach / Elmer L. Andersen ; edited by Lori Sturdevant
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Minnesota
Minnesota
Contents Preface; Editor's Note; PART I: THE EARLY YEARS; PART II: TAKING CHARGE; PART III: GOVERNOR; PART IV: CITIZEN ANDERSEN; Epilogue: The View from 2000; Appendix: Professional Positions, Activities, and Honors of Elmer L. Andersen; Index
Summary "Elmer L. Andersen has been described as Minnesota's leading citizen. As a Minnesota state senator, he pioneered progressive legislation in the areas of civil rights, special education and welfare, mental health care, and metropolitan governance. His term as Minnesota's governor in the early 1960s was marked by the founding of Southwest State University and the establishment of several state parks, which, along with his role in the creation of Voyageurs National Park, gained him a reputation as one of the region's most important environmentalists. He built a small adhesives business, H.B. Fuller Company, into a world leader, and created a publishing empire from one weekly newspaper. His philanthropic legacy has significantly contributed to educational and cultural institutions throughout the state."--Jacket
Notes Includes index
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Subject Andersen, Elmer L., 1909-2004.
SUBJECT Andersen, Elmer L., 1909-2004 fast
Subject Governors -- Minnesota -- Biography
Legislators -- Minnesota -- Biography
Businessmen -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Biography
HISTORY -- State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
Businessmen
Governors
Legislators
Politics and government
SUBJECT Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085773
Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Biography
Muskegon (Mich.) -- Biography
Subject Michigan -- Muskegon
Minnesota
Minnesota -- Saint Paul
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00008891
ISBN 9780816692477
0816692475
1299914624
9781299914629