Stafford King was a Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 Republican

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 politician, who served as Minnesota State Auditor

Minnesota State Auditor

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 nearly four decades.

Born in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, King served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was first elected as state auditor in 1930, and was reelected nine more times. He would win every election through 1966.

King retired from office in 1969, and died just over a year later in August 1970.