Education
Purdue University.
Purdue University.
He represented District 1B, which includes portions of Marshall, Pennington, Polk and Red Lake counties in the northwestern part of the state. A Democrat, he is a retired professional engineer Lieder was first elected in 1984, and was re-elected every two years until the 2010 general election, when he was unseated by Republican Debra Kiel.
Prior to the 2002 legislative redistricting, he represented the old District 2A. He chaired several incorporations of the Transportation Finance and Policy Division subcommittee through the years.
He also chaired the General Legislation, Veterans Affairs, and Elections Committee during the 1993-1994 biennium. Lieder attended Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, and the University of Illinois in the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, to study Engineering.
He also served in the United States. Army in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany during and after World World War II (1943–1946).
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Democratic Party.
He was also the last member of the House to have served in World World War World War II He was a member of the House Agriculture, Rural Economies and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee for the Veterans Affairs Division, and of the Finance subcommitees for the Capital Investment Finance Division, the Transportation and Transit Policy and Oversight Division, and the Transportation Finance and Policy Division, which he chaired.