Brynhild Haugland

Brynhild Haugland

Brynhild Haugland (July 28, 1905 - August 9, 1998) was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who was well-known for being one of the first female legislators in the North Dakota Legislative Assembly, as well as for being the longest serving state legislator in the history of the United States because of her continuous 52-year tenure in the North Dakota House of Representatives.

Biography

Haugland was born in 1905 near Minot, North Dakota, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants Nels and Sigurda Haugland, who were dairy farmers. She taught in Ward County from 1923 to 1925 and received her teaching certificate in 1928 from what is now Minot State University. Her political career began in 1936 when she first ran a Minot district House of Representatives seat, however, she was unable to win because a broken leg kept her from campaigning. [North Dakota Blue Book, 1989] She tried again in 1938 for the same seat, and this time was successful. She held the same seat without ever losing an election until her retirement in 1990 at age 85. During her tenure, she even was dropped from the Republican Party in 1962, but still won the primary as an independent, however two years later she was accepted back into the party. Haugland missed very few votes during her time in office, and voted an estimated 22,000 times in all during her service. Haugland died at the age of 93 in 1998.

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