Background
He was born in Minneota, Minnesota of Icelandic descent.
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Val Bjornson
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University of Minnesota.
Career
In World World War II, he served in Navy intelligence, stationed in Iceland. Besides English, he was able to speak Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. He was part owner of the Minneota Mascot newspaper and an associate editor at the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.
As the Republican candidate in the United States Senate elections, 1954, he lost to Hubert Humphrey, with whom he sometimes shared a car to travel the state.
He died in Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota, his alma mater, and the University of Iceland have a student exchange scholarship named in his honor.
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Nationality
United States -
Political Party
Republican party