Railroad & Warehouse Commissioner, 1934 Election

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Date: November 6, 1934
Cycle: 1934
Office: Railroad & Warehouse Commissioner
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Charles Munn Man Farmer-Labor 420,117 44.02 +8.70
Christian J. Laurisch Incumbent Man Republican 337,061 35.31
Robert G. Close Man Democrat 197,264 20.67

The election for this seat was for a six-year term.

Laurisch was the fifth Railroad / Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner to lose at the ballot box following Anti-Monopolist Alonzo Edgerton in 1875, Republican-turned-Prohibitionist William Marshall in 1881, and Democratic-People's nominees Peter Rindal and Thomas Knox in 1900.

Munn was a farmer from Osseo, sitting state Representative (HD 36, 1927-1935), Farmer-Labor nominee for the 3rd CD in 1942, and DFL nominee for the 3rd CD in 1944.

Close was a resident of Duluth.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1935 (Abstract of Votes Polled for State Officers By Counties).