Harold Edward Stassen

Born 1907 in North St. Paul, Minnesota
Died 2001 in Minnesota

B.A., University of Minnesota, 1927
L.L.B., University of Minnesota, 1929
Hon. LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1948

• Practicing attorney, 1929-1930

• County Attorney of Dakota County, Minnesota, 1930-1938

• Governor, State of Minnesota, 1938-1943

• Captain, U.S. Navy, 1943-1945 (his military service was performed in the South Pacific, where he was assigned to the staff of Admiral William F. Halsey)

• U.S. Delegate, San Francisco Conference of the United Nations, 1945

• Nationally prominent candidate for U.S. President, 1948, but was defeated for nomination at the Republican National Convention by New York Governor Thomas Dewey

• Director, Mutual Security Administration, 1953, with cabinet rank in the Eisenhower administration

• Director, Foreign Operations Administration, 1953-1955, with cabinet rank

• Special Assistant to the U.S. President, 1955-1958, with cabinet rank, to direct studies of U.S. and world disarmament

• Practicing attorney in the Philadelphia law firm of Stassen, Kostos, and Mason, 1958-

• Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, 1958, but was defeated in the Republican primary by McGonigle

• Candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, 1959, but was defeated in the general election by the incumbent Democrat, Richardson C. Dilworth

• Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, 1966, but was defeated in the Republican primary