Hundreds Mourn Stassen at Service
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Hundreds turned out in West St. Paul to say goodbye to former Minnesota Gov. Harold E. Stassen, a liberal Republican who also ran for president nine times.
Stassen, who had been the last surviving signer of the U.N. charter, died March 4 at the age of 93.
“He was a very great man, but also he was a humble, loyal, faithful servant,” another former Minnesota governor, Elmer L. Andersen, who served from 1961 to 1963, said during the service at Riverview Baptist Church.
Stassen was elected to the first of three two-year terms as governor in 1938. He was 31, making him the nation’s youngest governor.
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