Railroad & Warehouse Commissioner, 1916 Election

General

Date: November 7, 1916
Cycle: 1916
Office: Railroad & Warehouse Commissioner
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Ira B. Mills Incumbent Man Republican 201,592 56.03 +29.59
Olaf (O.A.) Hedin Man Democrat 95,103 26.43
John A. Lind Man Prohibition 63,129 17.54

The election for this seat was for a six-year term.

Commissioner Mills was reelected to a fifth term. Mills died in office on May 3, 1921. Governor J.A.O. Preus appointed Mankato attorney Ivan Bowen.

Hedin was a resident of Minneapolis in the farm land and real estate business and former Kandiyohi County Register of Deeds.

Lind was a farmer from Lowry.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1917 (p. 513).