Background
HAGG, Sven John was born on April 10, 1870 in Ama, Sweden. Son of Gustav and Katharina (Lundgren) Hagg.
HAGG, Sven John was born on April 10, 1870 in Ama, Sweden. Son of Gustav and Katharina (Lundgren) Hagg.
Common and High Schools, Sweden.
Dakota Lumber retail business, 1901. Elected President Sioux Lumber Company, Inc., 1910. Elected to House of Representative of So.
Dakota Legislature from Corson Company, 1921-1925. Elected to State Senate for Thirty-seventh Senatorial District, comprising Corson, Walworth and Edmunds Cos., 1925-1929. Re-elected since 1929.
Held City and School District offices, 30 years Served as member Commns. on Roads and Highways in both Houses, since 1921. Instrumental in passage of 24 gallon gasoline road tax bill in 1921. also in passage of bridge bill in 1923 to build five bridges in So. Dakota across Missouri River.
Chmn. House Committee on Indian Affairs. Chmn. Senate Committee on Ways and Means.
Member: Artist Fellowship & Master of Arts. Consistory 32°; Council R. and S.M. K. T.; Order of the Eastern Star Chapter Royal Arch Mason.
Benevolent and Protective Order Elks. Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Clubs: Lions, Commercial (McLaughlin, South Dakota).
Spouse Mattie E. Faris, June 20, 1899, Flandreau, S.