Secretary of State, 1922 Election

General

Date: November 7, 1922
Cycle: 1922
Office: Secretary of State
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Mike Holm Incumbent Man Republican 348,559 52.58 +15.21
Susie W. Stageberg Woman Farmer-Labor 247,757 37.37
Claude Swanson Man Democrat 66,616 10.05

Secretary of State Holm was reelected to his second of 16 terms.

Stageberg, a prohibitionist from Red Wing, was the wife of 1918 National Party gubernatorial nominee Olaf Stageberg. She became known as the "Mother of the Farmer-Labor Party" and was president of Red Wing's Women's Christian Temperance Union. She would also receive the Farmer-Labor nomination for the office in 1924 and 1928 and the Progressive nomination for Lieutenant Governor in 1950. Stageberg was the first woman to appear on a general election ballot for Secretary of State in Minnesota.

Swanson was a reporter from Fairmont and a newspaperman for the Fairmont Sentinel. He was also a former Secret Service agent for the U.S. Treasury.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1923 (Abstract of Votes Polled for State Officers By Counties).