Wendell Richard Anderson (1933 - 2016)

Born 1 Feb 1933 in St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States

Died 17 Jul 2016 at age 83 in St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States

Preceded by 32nd Governor Harold P. LeVander Preceded by Walter Mondale

Wendell Anderson 33rd Governor of Minnesota 1971—1976 US Senator (Class 2) from Minnesota 1975—1978

Succeeded by 34th Governor Rudy Perpich Succeeded by Rudy Boschwitz

Biography

Wendell Anderson is Notable.

Wendell Anderson was a Minnesotan.

Wendell was born in 1933. He is the son of Theodore M. Anderson and Gladys M. Nord.^[1] He married Mary C. McKee August 11, 1963 in Hennepin county, Minnesota.^[2][3] They divorced September 7, 1990 in Hennepin county, Minnesota.^[4] He died in 2016.^[5]

Minnesota Governors

Wendell R. Anderson Biography

Wendell Richard Anderson was born in St. Paul on February 1, 1933 and graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1960. Prior to receiving his law degree, he was an Army infantry officer and played on the U.S. Amateur Hockey Team (1955, 1957) and the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (1956).

In 1958, while still in law school, Anderson, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member, was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives. He was re-elected in 1960 and then went on to two terms in the Minnesota Senate, in 1962 and 1966. Anderson was selected as an outstanding Minnesota legislator by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. He served as chairman of the 1968 Humphrey for President campaign in Minnesota.

Anderson was elected governor of Minnesota in 1970, focusing his campaign on the need to reduce the burden of high property taxes and to provide local communities—primarily schools—with major non-property revenues from the state. The resulting fiscal reform laws, passed in 1971, came to be known as the “Minnesota Miracle.”

Governor Anderson chaired the Democratic Governor’s Conference (1974–1975) and was a member of the Democratic National Committee during the same period. He was re-elected governor in 1974, but resigned in December 1976 to accept appointment to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Walter F. Mondale after his election as vice-president. Anderson lost this Senate seat to Independent-Republican Rudy Boschwitz in the 1978 general election, due in part to backlash against the circumstances of his original appointment.

Following his Senate service, Anderson remained active in the DFL Party and served for a number of years on the University of Minnesota board of regents.

He died in 2016 in St. Paul.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ 1940 US Fed Census: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS2K-31L : 8 February 2020), Wendell R Anderson in household of Theodore M Anderson, Ward 1, St. Paul, St. Paul City, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 90-2, sheet 1B, line 79, family 21, 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 1994.
2. ↑ Marriage:
3. ↑ Marriage: "Minnesota, U.S., Marriages from the Minnesota Official Marriage System", 1850-2019, https://moms.mn.gov/, Mary Christine Mc Kee, Marriage Date: 11 Aug 1963, Marriage Place: Hennepin, Minnesota, USA, Spouse: Wendell Richard Anderson, Certificate Number: 7450224
4. ↑ Divorce: "Minnesota, U.S., Divorce Index", 1970-1995, Mary M Anderson, Gender: Female, Estimated Birth Year: abt 1940, Age: 50, Spouse Name: Wendell R Anderson, Gender: Male, Estimated Birth Year: abt 1933, Age: 57, Divorce Date: 7 Sep 1990, Divorce County: Hennepin.
5. ↑ Find-a-Grave: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-RDMB : 8 August 2020), Wendell Richard Anderson, ; Burial, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States of America, Lakewood Cemetery; citing record ID 167095630, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
6. ↑ Minnesota Governors Biography: https://mnhs.gitlab.io/archive/governors-of-minnesota-collections/collections.mnhs.org/governors/index.php/10004228.html

• Wendell Anderson on Wikipedia
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Wendell Richard Anderson on Find A Grave: Memorial #167095630 retrieved 22 sep 2016