[1] Farmer-Labor, later Democratic-Farmer-Labor. Ran as a Republican in 1946.
Father: Lauritz Petersen
Mother: Anna
Wife: Rigmor Christine Wosgaard (m. 1914, d. 1930 childbirth, one daughter)
Daughter: Evelyn Metzger
Wife: Medora Belle Grandprey (m. 28-Jun-1934, until his death, d. 7-Apr-1997, one daughter
Daughter: Karka Tinklenberg
American Publishing Company President
Minnesota State Official Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner (1954-67)
Minnesota State Official Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner (1937-42)
Governor of Minnesota (22-Aug-1936 to 4-Jan-1937)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota (1935-36)
Minnesota State House of Representatives 56th (1931-34)
Mayor Askov, MN (1928)
Minnesota State Official City Clerk, Askov, MN (1918-24)
Askov American Publisher and Editor (1914-68)
Naturalized US Citizen