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Olson, Floyd

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Olson, Floyd (Bjerstjerne) (1891–1936) governor; born in Minneapolis, Minn. Born in the slums, he became a Minneapolis trial lawyer in 1914, serving as county attorney in the 1920s. As Farmer-Labor Party governor (Minn.; 1931–36), he secured money for unemployment relief measures and issued a two-year moratorium on farm foreclosures, despite a conservative Republican legislature.

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