Rudy Perpich

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolph George "Rudy" Perpich, Sr. (June 27, 1928 September 21, 1995) was an American dentist and politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he served as the 34th and 36th Governor of Minnesota from December 29, 1976 to January 4, 1979, and from January 3, 1983 to January 7, 1991. This was the longest tenure among the state's governors. He was also the state's only Roman Catholic governor and the only one to serve non-consecutive terms. Rudolph George Perpi was born in Carson Lake, Minnesota, which is now part of Hibbing, Minnesota. His father, Anton Prpi , was a miner who had immigrated from Croatia to the Mesabi Iron Range of Minnesota, and his mother was an American of Croatian descent. Perpich did not learn to speak English until at least the first grade of elementary school. At 14, he began working for the Great Northern Railway. In 1946, he graduated from Hibbing High School (where he was inaugurated as governor in1983) and went on to serve in the United States Army for two years.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131150661
• ISBN-10: 6131150664
• Artikelnr.: 29970437