Background
KVALE, Paul John was born on March 27, 1896 in Orfordville, Wisconsin, United States. Son of 0. J. and Ida T. (Simley) Kvale.
United States representative politician
KVALE, Paul John was born on March 27, 1896 in Orfordville, Wisconsin, United States. Son of 0. J. and Ida T. (Simley) Kvale.
He attended the Orfordville school and the University of Illinois. Kvale was graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, in 1917 and served in the United States Army during the First World War as a sergeant in a machine gun corps, from September 7, 1917, to August 4, 1919.
After the war, he became a student at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1919 and 1920, after which he returned to and engaged as editor of the Swift County News in 1920 and 1921. In 1921, he became staff editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. After his father"s death, who was elected as a Farmer-Labor candidate to the 71st congress to fill the vacancy.
Kvale was re-elected to the 72nd, 73rd, 74th, and 75th congresses, and served from October 16, 1929 to January 3, 1939.
His run for reelection in 1938 to the 76th congress was unsuccessful. On June 14, 1960, Paul John Kvale died in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Asked how to say his name, Kvale told The Literary Digest: "Pronounced qually rhymes with golly.".
From 1922 to 1929, Kvale served as secretary to his father, who was a member of the United States Congress.
Spouse Russell P. Burcher, April 11, 1925.