March of the Governors, Governor #25: Harold Stassen

March of the Governors – Harold Stassen, Governor Podcast Harold Stassen, Minnesota's twenty-fifth governor, is among our most intriguing. He sprang to national attention as the state's "Boy Governor," elected in 1938 at the age of thirty-one. Stassen was very popular in his over four years as governor because of success with the legislature and in administering state government. He went on to be a US Navy commander in WWII; one of eight US delegates to the 1945 UN Charter Assembly; a top presidential candidate in 1948; president of the University of Pennsylvania; and a member of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet. Stassen also is credited by many with leading and inspiring a long line of progressive leaders in Minnesota's Republican Party. Today, however, Stassen is sometimes remembered not for his political accomplishments but for the many unsuccessful runs for political office in his last three decades. As a result, Stassen has become a joke to some political observers instead of the multitalented politician and public policy thinker that he was.

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March of the Governors, Governor #25: Harold Stassen is an episode from Ramsey County History podcast by Paul Nelson.

This episode is 01:16:30 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2023.

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