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Senate Years of Service: 1945-1981 Party: Republican
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YOUNG, Milton Ruben, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Berlin, La Moure County, N.Dak., on
December 6, 1897; attended the public schools of La Moure County; attended the North Dakota
State Agricultural College at Fargo, and Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa; engaged in agricultural
pursuits near Berlin, N.Dak.; elected to the North Dakota house of representatives in 1932; member,
North Dakota senate 1934-1945; appointed on March 12, 1945, to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of John Moses; subsequently elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate, by special election, on June 25, 1946, to complete the six-year term ending January 3,
1951; reelected in 1950, 1956, 1962, 1968 and 1974 and served from March 12, 1945, to January
3, 1981; was not a candidate for renomination in 1980; served as President pro tempore of the
Senate during the Ninety-sixth Congress; resided in Sun City, Ariz., until his death on May 31, 1983;
interment at Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, N.Dak.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; U.S.
Congress. Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes in the Congress of the United States
on the Life and Contributions of Milton R. Young. 98th Cong., 1st sess., 1983.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1983
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