Arthur Le Sueur , AKA "Arthur Le Sueur, was an American socialist newspaper editor, politician, and lawyer
Background
Arthur Le Sueur was born on December 7, 1867 in Nininger, Minnesota to John and Amy Le Sueur , a farming family who had recently arrived in America from Jersey, in the Channel Islands. His mother died in an accident when he was a small boy and Arthur was forced along with his siblings into farm work at a very young age.
Education
Arthur studied law at the University of Michigan for one year and in 1889 began working at a law office in Grand Forks.
Career
Early years
In 1880, Arthur left the family farm and moved to Arvilla, North Dakota, where he worked as a wood-cutter in the winter months and a grain thresher during the harvest season. Money made above and beyond living expenses was saved for tuition to law school. On October 17, 1896, LaSueur married Ida M. Winslow in Arvilla.
Le Sueur relocated to Minot, where he established his own law practice.
He was elected to the Minot City Commission in 1911 and in the following year Le Sueur was elected as mayor of the city of Minot. lieutenant was there that he met Marian Wharton, the head of the English department at the school.
The pair soon married and moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Le Sueur thereby became the stepfather of the writer Meridel Le Sueur.
Le Sueur was active in support of this new organization.
After a brief flurry of successful campaigns and policy initiatives, this organization developed financial problems in 1921, leading Townley to resign his post as president of the organization the following year. The National Physical Laboratory was finally terminated in 1923. Death and legacy
Arthur Le Sueur died on March 19, 1950.
He was 72 years old at the time of his death.
Politics
LeSeuer is best remembered as the Socialist mayor of Minot, North Dakota, a post to which he was elected in 1912, and as stepfather to author Meridel Le Sueur. Socialist politician
Speaking around the state constantly in support of the organization and the cause, LeSuer became the best known representative of the socialist movement in the state. Le Sueur served as the editor for the Iconoclast, a socialist paper printed in Minot.
The candidates of the Socialist across the state of North Dakota drew about 8% of the total vote in the 1912 election — the high-water mark for the movement in that state. During the years of World War I, Le Sueur was tapped to head the legal department of People"s College, a socialist-oriented correspondence school located in Fort Scott, Kansas. During the years of World War I the Socialist Party of North Dakota essentially dissolved, with its adherents joining the fledgling National Non-Partisan League, headed by Arthur C. Townley.