March of the Governors, Governor #35: Albert Harold Quie

Albert H. Quie (1923-2023) left a safe seat in Congress after twenty years to run for governor in 1978. In that, his timing was good. He rode around the "Minnesota Massacre" and into office as the state's thirty-fifth governor along with fellow Republicans Dave Durenberger and Rudy Boschwitz, who were elected to the US Senate. But in another respect, his timing could not have been worse. A successful first year of tax cuts was followed by an unwelcome recession that slashed state revenues and triggered a three-year budget crisis requiring six special legislative sessions and making most of the governor's political agenda impossible to achieve. Quie did not seek reelection, moving, instead, into a long career of public service, most notably in prison ministry.

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March of the Governors, Governor #35: Albert Harold Quie is an episode from Ramsey County History podcast by Paul Nelson.

This episode is 45:44 long.

This episode was published on Apr 10, 2024.

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