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Fred Marshall
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Fred Marshall, (March 13, 1906 – June 5, 1985),a Representative from the U.S. state of Minnesota; born in Union Grove Township, near Grove City, Meeker County, Minnesota; graduated from Paynesville, Minnesota High School; engaged in farming; member of the Minnesota Agriculture Administration Committee, 1937 – 1941; State director of the Farm Security Administration (later the Farmers Home Administration) 1941 – 1948; delegate, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) convention, 1966; elected as a DFL member to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resumed agriculture pursuits; member, National Commission on Food Marketing; member, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Appeals Board; was a resident of Grove City, Minnesota, until his death in Litchfield, Minnesota, on June 5, 1985; interment in Burr Oak Cemetery on the family farm in Union Grove Township, Meeker County.
| Preceded by Harold Knutson |
U.S. Representative from the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota 1949 – 1963 |
Succeeded by Alec G. Olson |