Born: April 13, 1907, West Saint Paul, MN
Died: March 4, 2001 (age 93 years), Bloomington, MN
Spouse: Esther Glewwe (m. 1929)
Party: Republican Party
Previous offices: Director of the United States Foreign Operations Administration (1953–1955) and Governor of Minnesota (1939–1943)
Books: East-West Trade Trends: Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953, Eisenhower--turning the World Toward Peace, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin: Hearings Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on the Subject of the Improvement of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, and more
Place of burial: Acacia Park Cemetery, Mendota Heights, MN