Milton R. Young, US Senator from North Dakota, signed 1968 cover

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Milton R. Young, US Senator from North Dakota, signed 1968 cover:
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Milton R. Young,US Senator from North Dakota,autographed envelopeingreen ink,small address label,Postmarked Washington, DC, October 25, 1968 (inverted date slug), probably signed a day or two earlier by the Senator,fresh &F-VF.

Milton Ruben Young(December 6, 1897 – May 31, 1983) was a United States politician, most notable for representing North Dakota in theUnited States Senatefrom 1945 until 1981. At the time of his retirement, he was the most seniorRepublicanin the Senate.

Young was born atBerlin, North Dakota, and graduated from LaMoure High School. He attendedNorth Dakota State UniversityandGraceland College. In 1919, he married Malinda Benson; they had three sons. Malinda died in 1969. (Young later married Patricia Byrne, his secretary in the Senate, ofBowman, North Dakota.) After college, Young returned home to operate his father\'s farm.

Young became increasingly interested in politics during the depression and drought of the late 1920s and 1930s. He was active in community affairs, serving on the school, township, and countyAgricultural Adjustment Act(AAA) boards. He stood for election to theNorth Dakota House of Representativesin 1932; he won, and was then elected to thestate Senatejust two years later. Young was also one of the key persons in developing the Republican Organizing Committee inNorth Dakotaduring the 1940s. With the death ofJohn Mosesin 1945, GovernorFred G. Aandahlappointed Young to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat, and Young was forced to relinquish management of the family farm, in order to fulfill his duties in Washington.

Young spent the remainder of his career in the Senate, becoming one of the longest-serving members of the Senate in its history. His major committee assignments were on theAgriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry committee, and theAppropriations committeeof which he was the ranking Republican member. In 1974, during his last election for the U.S. Senate, Young\'s age was being used against him during the Republican primary; Young had himself filmed breaking a piece of board with his bare hands and easily won renomination.

As a result of the 1980 elections, Republicans won control of the Senate. Young, as the longest-serving Republican Senator, would have been in line to becomePresident pro tempore. However, he had chosen to retire instead of running for a seventh six-year term. In deference to his long service in the body, he was elected President pro tempore by the lame-duck, Democratic controlled Senate on December 5, 1980, and served for one day.

Senator Young died at his retirement home inSun City, Arizonaon May 31, 1983 and was buried atBerlin, North Dakota. TheMilton R. Young Power PlantinOliver County, North Dakotawas named in his honor.

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