Dwight Grotberg
| Dwight Grotberg | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 26, 1967 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Alison Grotberg |
| Parents | Richard and Linda Grotberg |
| Occupation | Farmer |
Dwight Grotberg (born January 26, 1967) is a North Dakota politician and a former Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in North Dakota. He lost to the Democratic-NPL incumbent, Kent Conrad, on November 7, 2006. Grotberg is an Anderson, North Dakota town councilman and a farmer from Sanborn in Barnes County.
Grotberg received the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in North Dakota at the state GOP convention in late March 2006. Despite running for office in the historically conservative state of North Dakota, Grotberg faced a difficult campaign due to the Senator's name recognition, long tenure in office, available funds, and popularity.
Dwight Grotberg was born in 1967 and raised on a farm near Wimbledon, North Dakota. After graduating from high school, he traveled to Parana, Brazil and worked at a and grain farm run by a mission organization dedicated to training indigenous people to be self-sufficient and industrious.
After returning home, Grotberg enrolled in Bethany College of Missions and graduated with a degree in Cross-Cultural Studies. He then traveled to New Zealand and worked on farms in the Bay of Islands to gain a global perspective of farming and its methodologies.
In 1989, he returned to North Dakota and attended North Dakota State University to study agricultural economics until 1992. He then moved back to Wimbledon and built a farm of his own on which he currently resides. In 1989, Grotberg married his wife, Alison. They have seven children together, all are currently homeschooled. In 1996, he suffered a spinal cord injury when his tractor was struck by a semi-truck.
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