Bio of JENSEN, Anton C., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 781-782
A. C. JENSEN (Anton C. Jensen)
A. C. Jensen, chief of police in Minneapolis, is a native of Hennepin county,
Minnesota. He was born on a farm a short distance north of this city and is of
Danish parentage. His father and mother, Knud and Anna (Peterson) Jensen, came
to America from Denmark, arriving in St. Paul on the first day of April, 1871.
Knud Jensen helped to build the road that runs northwest to Breckenridge through
Morris and Benson. A. C. Jensen spent his boyhood as do most country boys and
attended the Dunning school in District No. 99. He continued to live on his
father's farm until he was nineteen years old, when his parents moved to
Henning, Minnesota. His first position was as fireman on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, making a run that went out of Staples, Minnesota. After three years of
railroading he secured a position in the engineering department of the State
Hospital for the Insane, at Fergus Falls. Two years later, in 1900, he was made
chief of police in Fergus Falls and held that position for two years. During
1899-1900 he had been deputy sheriff in Fergus Falls and following his release
from the police department he again served as deputy. On January 4, 1905, he
went to Stillwater as a guard in the state prison. Six months later he moved to
Minneapolis, which has since been his home. In this city he worked at first for
the Minneapolis Electric Steel Elevator Company and later was a fireman on the
Soo Line for a time. He applied for a position on the Minneapolis police force,
and on January 1, 1906, during the administration of Mayor D. P. Jones, received
his appointment to the force. After serving for four and a half years as
patrolman he was made sergeant. Promotions to a lieutenancy and captaincy
followed in due time. Finally, after having held the rank of captain for two and
a half years, he was made chief, on the 5th of July, 1921.
Chief Jensen has a military record of unusual distinction, being a veteran of
two wars. He went to the Spanish-American war as second lieutenant in the
Fourteenth Regiment of Minnesota Volunteers, and was later promoted to the rank
of first lieutenant. It was with this commission that he went to the Mexican
border for patrol duty in 1916, with the Third Minnesota Infantry. In the World
war, as captain in the same unit, he was stationed at Camp Cody for eighteen
months. He was a machine gun and howitzer officer and had charge of a machine
gun company for a year. On August 1, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of major.
During that year he was provost guard commander at Camp Funston, having charge
of the military police for a time. After the armistice was signed he was
honorably discharged from the service, on December 20, 1918. Altogether Mr.
Jensen has been connected with the National Guard for over twenty years and is
still a major in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Minnesota National Guard.
Mr. Jensen married Miss Millie R. Hahn and has one child, a daughter, Irene. He
has always been a lover of out-of-door sports and formerly played baseball
himself. He is an enthusiastic football supporter and enjoys taking part in a
good game of handball and golf. In Masonic circles he is known as a Knight
Templar, belonging to Darius Commandery, and he is also a member of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen and the Odin Club of Minneapolis. By reason of his
military training, wide experience and natural ability Chief Jensen is a
superior executive and administrator. Under his direction the police department
of Minneapolis has maintained a high degree of efficiency and is known as one of
the best in the country. Probably at no time in the last fifty years has the
maintenance of security for person and property been so difficult as it has been
in these few years following the World war. The unrest, prevalent in all classes
of society, has found one of its outlets in a nation-wide lawlessness that seems
to be the inevitable aftermath of a great war. Minneapolis is indeed fortunate
in having at the head of her police department a man so well qualified to cope
with this unusual situation, and the fact that the city is enjoying a large
degree of freedom from this menace is convincing evidence of Mr. Jensen's
fitness for his office.