259:, where he worked as a wood-cutter in the winter months and a grain thresher during the harvest season. During this time, LeSueur saved extra money for law school tuition. In 1889, he began working at a law office in Grand Forks. In 1891, he graduated from the University of Michigan with a law degree and began his law practice in Minot, North Dakota, in 1900, after relocating there with his wife Ida M. Winslow whom he had married in Arvilla on October 17, 1896.
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with 700 other mayors to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the city. In May 1911, members of the
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Nonpartisan League developed financial problems in 1921, leading Townley to resign his post as president of the organization the following year. The NPL was disbanded in 1923.
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activist Arthur
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History of North Dakota, Embracing a
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Crusaders: The Radical Legacy of Marian and Arthur LeSueur" (1984),
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395:vol. 17, no. 5 (November 1916), pp. 298–300.
236:Arthur LeSueur was born on December 7, 1867, in
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228:from 1909 until his resignation in 1911.
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817:. University of Illinois Press.
678:"LeSueur Pleased With St. Louis"
966:People from Hastings, Minnesota
684:. 14 October 1909. p. 11.
554:. 15 October 1908. p. 11.
522:"LeSueuer for Attorney General"
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391:"Legal Side LIghts on Murder,"
269:Socialist Party of North Dakota
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762:. 7 February 1912. p. 2.
626:"LeSueur Heads the Commission"
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112:Hastings, Minnesota
84:Halvor L. Halvorson
16:American journalist
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