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Senate Years of Service: 1940-1942; 1943-1949 Party: Republican; Republican
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BALL, Joseph Hurst, a Senator from Minnesota; born in Crookston, Polk County, Minn.,
November 3, 1905; attended the public schools; student at Antioch College,
Yellow Springs, Ohio 1922-1924, Eau Claire (Wis.) Normal School 1925, and the
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1926 and 1927; journalist and writer
1927-1940; appointed on October 14, 1940, as a Republican to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ernest Lundeen for the term
ending January 2, 1943, and served from October 14, 1940, to November 17, 1942,
when a duly elected successor qualified; elected in 1942 for the term
commencing January 3, 1943, and served from January 3, 1943, to January 3,
1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; chairman, Joint Committee
on Labor-Management Relations (Eightieth Congress); resumed journalistic
activities; shipping executive; lived on a farm near Front Royal, Va., until
his death in Chevy Chase, Md., December 18, 1993; interment in Prospect Hill
Cemetery, Front Royal, Va.
BibliographyStuhler, Barbara. Senator Joseph H. Ball: Pioneering
Internationalist. In
Ten Men of Minnesota and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1968,
pp. 123-44. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1973.
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