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Knute Nelson 1906 - 1987

Knute Nelson of Benson, Swift County, Minnesota was born on October 13, 1906, and died at age 80 years old in February 1987.
Knute Nelson
Benson, Swift County, Minnesota 56215
October 13, 1906
February 1987
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  • 10/13
    1906

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    October 13, 1906
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  • 02/dd
    1987

    Death

    February 1987
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    Knute Nelson lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1906, in the year that Knute Nelson was born, abolitionist and suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony died, before women's right to vote nationally was realized (in 1920). She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association which later became the League of Women Voters. She died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in New York.
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In 1940, Knute was 34 years old when on November 5th, President Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie of Indiana (a corporate lawyer). Roosevelt running for a third term was controversial. But the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession and he promised that he would not involve the country in any foreign war (which of course changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor). Roosevelt defeated Willkie in the popular vote by 54.7 to 44.8% and in the Electoral College 449 to 82.
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