Karl Earl Mundt Biography


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MUNDT, Karl Earl, a Representative and a Senator from South Dakota; born 
in Humboldt, Minnehaha County, S. Dak., June 3, 1900; attended the public 
schools of Humboldt, Pierre, and Madison, S. Dak.; was graduated from 
Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., in 1923 and from Columbia University, 
New York, N. Y., in 1927; teacher of speech and social science in Bryant 
(S. Dak.) High School in 1923 and 1924; superintendent of schools in Bryant, 
S. Dak., 1924-1927; speech and social science teacher in General Beadle 
State Teachers College, Madison, S. Dak., 1927-1936; also engaged in the 
real estate and insurance business and in agricultural pursuits; member 
of the State Game and Fish Commission 1931-1937; also engaged in literary 
pursuits; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four 
succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,1939, until his resignation 
on December 30, 1948, having been appointed to the United States Senate to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harlan J. Bushfield and the resignation 
of Vera C. Bushfield and served from December 31, 1948, to January 3,1949; did 
not seek renomination to the Eighty-first Congress; elected as a Republican to 
the United States Senate in 1948 and again in 1954 and served from January 3, 
1949, to January 3, 1961.  Reelected in 196O for the term ending January 3, 
1967.