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Gilbert N. Haugen

Gilbert N. Haugen
Gilbert N. Haugen 1929.jpg
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Iowa's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1933
Preceded by Thomas Updegraff
Succeeded by Fred Biermann
33rd Dean of the United States House of Representatives
In office
May 1928 – March 1933
Preceded by Thomas S. Butler
Succeeded by Edward W. Pou
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives
In office
1894–1898
Personal details
Born April 21, 1859
Orfordville, Wisconsin, United States
Died July 18, 1933(1933-07-18) (aged 74)
Northwood, Iowa
Political party Republican
Profession Banker

Gilbert Nelson Haugen (April 21, 1859 – July 18, 1933) was a seventeen-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in northeastern Iowa. For nearly five years, he was the longest-serving member of the House. Born before the American Civil War, and first elected to Congress in the 19th century, Haugen served until his defeat in the 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt landslide.

Born near Orfordville, Wisconsin, Haugen attended rural schools. He moved to Decorah, Iowa, in 1873 and engaged in agricultural pursuits.He attended Breckenridge College in Decorah, and Academic and Commercial College, in Janesville, Wisconsin. After leaving college, Haugen engaged in various enterprises, principally real estate and banking. Moving to Northwood, Iowa in 1886, Haugen engaged in banking. In 1890, he organized the Northwood Banking Co. and became its president. He also served as treasurer of Worth County, Iowa from 1887 to 1893.

In 1894, Haugen was elected to his first of two terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, where he served until 1898. That year, he was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House, first serving in the Fifty-sixth Congress. He was re-elected sixteen times. On April 5, 1917, he was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (in the Sixtieth Congress), and on the Committee on Agriculture (in the Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses).


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