Odin Langen

Odin Langen

Odin Elsford Stanley Langen (January 5, 1913 – July 6, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.

Langen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota attended the public schools and Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1933 and 1934. He engaged in farming in Kittson County near Kennedy, Minnesota and associated with Production Marketing Administration in Kittson County, Minnesota, 1935 – 1950. Langen was a member of the Kennedy (Minnesota) School Board and served as its president 1948 – 1950. Langen also served on the South Red River Town Board 1947 – 1950, and in the Minnesota House of Representatives 1950 – 1958. Langen served as the Republican leader from 1957 to 1958 when he was elected as a Republican to the 86th, 87th, 88th, 89th, 90th, and 91st congresses, (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1971). After being an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1970 to the 92nd congress, Langen became Administrator of the Packers and Stockyards Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture from January 1971 to April 1972, when he resigned to resume farming pursuits in Kennedy, Minnesota. Odin Langen died July 6, 1976 and was interred in the Red River Cemetery, Red River, Minnesota. He was married to Lillian Clauson.

References

• Minnesota Legislators Past and Present

• Odin Langen at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Minnesota House Minority Leaders Halstead Prifrel Chilgren Cina Hartle Langen Duxbury Cina Sabo Dirlam Savelkoul Searle Sherwood Jennings Norton Schreiber Dempsey Sviggum Pugh Entenza Anderson Kelliher Seifert Zellers Thissen Daudt