Education
Des Moines College; University of Minnesota.
United States representative lawyer politician
Des Moines College; University of Minnesota.
In 1910 at the age of 30, he defeated incumbent James Albertus Tawney in the Republican primary election with the support of Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and other Progressive Republican, running on a platform of drastically reduced tariffs and opposition to Cannonism, and was subsequently elected to the 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, and 68th congresses, (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1925). Chairman of the Congressional Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry in 1921 and 1922. Declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1924 to the 69th congress.
Vice chairman of the research council of the National Transportation Institute at Washington, District of Columbia, in 1923 and 1924.
President of the Millers" National Federation, Chicago, and Washington, District of Columbia, 1924–1929. Vice president, secretary, and, later, member of the board of directors of General Mills, Incorporated., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1930–1948.
President of the Transportation Association of America, Chicago 1943–1948. Died in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Interment in Lakewood Cemetery.
