Olof Adolf (Andersson) Eberhart (1870 - 1944)

Born 23 Jun 1870 in Karsbol, Frykerud, Värmland, Sverige

Ancestors

Husband of Adele O.m. (Koke) Eberhart — married 23 Jun 1898 in Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States

Died 6 Dec 1944 at age 74 in Savage, Scott, Minnesota, United States

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Preceded by 16th Governor John Albert Johnson

Adolph Olson Eberhart 17th Governor of Minnesota 1909—1915

Succeeded by 18th Governor Winfield Scott Hammond

Biography

Adolph (Andersson) Eberhart is Notable.

Adolph (Andersson) Eberhart was a Minnesotan.

Adolph Olson Eberhart was born in 1870. He is the son of Andrew Olson and Louise Johanson.^[1] He married Adele Koke June 23, 1898 in Mankato, Minnesota.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} He died in 1944^[7] and is buried at the Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota.^[8]

1870 23 Jun birth.^[9]

Governor of Minnesota

A.O. Eberhart Biography

As a student at St. Peter’s Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota’s seventeenth governor gave himself a new surname so he would not be confused with the abundance of other Olsons on campus. Already grooming himself for public life, Albert Olson Eberhart graduated with top honors after completing seven years of academic work in four.

Elected the youngest member of the state Senate in 1902, the Republican Eberhart was chosen as lieutenant governor four years later in the administration of the legendary Democrat, John A. Johnson. Although his first partial term as governor resulted from Johnson’s untimely death in 1909, he subsequently won the office twice on his own merits. An efficient administrator, Eberhart was also a consummate politician, and his detractors, including many Republicans, questioned his sincerity as well as the reputation of certain close associates. To assure his re-nomination in 1912, he called a special thirteen-day legislative session and deflated his critics by bulldozing through such progressive reforms as rural school consolidation and primary elections. Eberhart’s strategy worked; he avoided the censure of his own party and was re-nominated for a second full term in the first statewide primary.

Eberhart lost his re-nomination bid for a fourth term as governor. A second defeat in the 1916 U.S. Senate primary marked the end of his political career. After working as a real estate and insurance executive in Chicago, he retired to a rest home in Savage.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Reference to parents names: "Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDW4-6NL : 16 January 2020), Adolph Olson Eberhart, 1944.
2. ↑ Marriage: "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2YY-C52 : 9 March 2021), Adolph O Eberhart and Adele O M Koke, 1898., "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2BQ-RLF : 9 March 2021), Adolph O Eberhart and Adele O M Koke, 1898.
3. ↑ 1900 US Fed Census: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M99Y-VPC : accessed 20 March 2021), Adolph O Eberhart, Mankato city Ward 2, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18, sheet 1A, family 9, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,757.
4. ↑ 1910 US Fed Census: "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2P6-9HF : accessed 20 March 2021), Adolph Eberhart, St Paul Ward 7, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 101, sheet 4B, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 720; FHL microfilm 1,374,733.
5. ↑ 1920 US Fed Census: "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW1S-64H : 2 February 2021), Adolph O Eberhart, 1920.
6. ↑ 1940 US Fed Census: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7L7-GHL : 8 January 2021), Adele Eberhart in household of Elmer Lampe, District 1467, Clarke, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 29-13, sheet 5A, line 16, family 104, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 656.
7. ↑ Death: "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZFPX-H23Z : 7 July 2020), Adolph Olson Eberhart, 6 Dec 1944; citing Death, Minnesota State Department of Health, St. Paul.
8. ↑ Find-a-Grave: Find A Grave Memorial# 7145144
9. ↑ Frykerud (S) C:11 (1861-1879) Image 90
10. ↑ Governor of Minnesota Biography: https://mnhs.gitlab.io/archive/governors-of-minnesota-collections/collections.mnhs.org/governors/index.php/10004144.html

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