March of the Governors, Governor #32 Harold Levander (Series Podcast #35) Harold Levander (1910-1982) ran for political office once in his long life, in 1966. He defeated incumbent governor Karl Rolvaag, served four years, and never ranĀ for office again. He had been a star athlete in college, in football and track, and a national champion orator. He practiced law in Harold Stassen'sĀ firm, where he represented rural electric power cooperatives and the South St. Paul stockyards. As a Republican governor, he helped enact a remarkably progressiveĀ agenda that included creation of the sales tax, the MetropolitanĀ Council, and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
March of the Governors, Governor #32 Harold Levander (Series Podcast #35)
Harold Levander (1910-1982) ran for political office once in his long life, in 1966. He defeated incumbent governor Karl Rolvaag, served four years, and never ranĀ for office again. He had been a star athlete in college, in football and track, and a national champion orator. He practiced law in Harold Stassen'sĀ firm, where he represented rural electric power cooperatives and the South St. Paul stockyards. As a Republican governor, he helped enact a remarkably progressiveĀ agenda that included creation of the sales tax, the MetropolitanĀ Council, and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.