Herman Carl Andersen

Herman Carl Andersen (January 27, 1897 – July 26, 1978) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Newcastle, King County, Washington, January 27, 1897; moved with his parents to a farm near Tyler, Lincoln County, Minnesota, in 1901; attended the rural schools; attended the University of Washington and later the U.S. Naval Academy; engaged in cattle raising and agricultural pursuits 1919 – 1925 and as a civil engineer 1925 – 1930; resumed agricultural pursuits near Tyler, Minnesota, 1930 – 1938; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1935; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for renomination as an Independent in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resided in Falls Church, Virginia; died in Arlington, Virginia, July 26, 1978; cremated; ashes interred in Danebod Lutheran Cemetery, Tyler, Minnesota

Preceded by Paul John Kvale	U.S. Representative from the 7th Congressional district of Minnesota 1939 – 1963	Succeeded by Odin Langen