About Elmer L. Andersen
Elmer Lee Andersen was an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who built a successful business career with the H. B. Fuller Company. Andersen was most notably the 30th governor of Minnesota. A self-described progressive Republican, he was a well-regarded politician who passed many social and environmental regulations during his time as governor. Too young to work in the factory, Elmer's first job was helping his mother, who took in washing. Andersen graduated from high school in 1926 and became a member of the first class of the newly established Muskegon Junior College. Upon graduating two years later, he received the first diploma awarded by the school. I discovered that being a traveling salesman, on the road all the time, was no way to meet the kind of women I wanted to meet.
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