Secretary of State, 1920 Election

Primary Republican

Date: June 21, 1920
Cycle: 1920
Office: Secretary of State
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Mike Holm Man Republican 134,689 46.87 +7.82
Thomas Vollom Man Republican 112,210 39.05
Anton (A.M.) Opsahl Man Republican 40,479 14.09

Holm was a Norwegian-born Judge of Probate from Roseau County (1901-1920).

Vollom was a resident of Erskine and a farmer and business manager of the Garden Valley Telephone Company (the largest cooperatively-owned telephone company in Minnesota). He was a Prohibition nominee for HD 62 in 1908, 1910, and 1912, nominee for SD 66 in 1918 and 1940, Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor in 1924, Farmer-Labor nominee for Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner in 1926, and nominee for HD 66 in 1942.

Opsahl was a resident of Brainerd who would later get elected to the state House (HD 53, 1929-33).

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1921 (p. 101).