Henry Linde

Henry J. Linde (December 31, 1879 – 1917), was a North Dakota politician who served as the 9th North Dakota Attorney General for one term from 1915 to 1916. He was born in Ridgeway, Iowa, and he was educated at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and he graduated in the spring of 1901. He studied law at the University of Minnesota and graduated in the spring of 1906. He was a teacher in science and English literature at Park Region Luther college in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He came to Plaza, North Dakota in July of 1906 and engaged in the practice of law. He later moved to Stanley, North Dakota, when Mountrail County, North Dakota was organized. He was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1908, and to the North Dakota Senate in 1910, as a Republican. He was elected the state's attorney general in 1914, and he served one term since he did not make the Republican primary in 1916.