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Elmer A. Benson

(Benson, Elmer A. (Elmer Austin), 1895-1985)

The Elmer Benson campaign responded to the dissemination of Are They Communists or Catspaws, an antisemitic pamphlet written by Ray P. Chase, with this advertisement, published in The American Jewish World, the weekly Jewish community newspaper, the week before the election for governor. The ad accuses the Stassen campaign and its supporters of red-baiting and Jew-baiting, and implies their association with the Silver Shirts, a national pro-Nazi group with a following in Minnesota.

Elmer Austin Benson (September 22, 1895 – March 13, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. In 1935, Benson was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of Thomas Schall. He served as the 24th governor of Minnesota, defeating Republican Martin Nelson in a landslide in Minnesota's 1936 gubernatorial election. He lost the governorship two years later to Republican Harold Stassen in the 1938 gubernatorial election. (From Wikipedia)

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Benson, Elmer A. (Elmer Austin), 1895-1985: The Case for the Recognition of the Spanish Republic: Memorandum Submitted to the President of the United States, February 26, 1946 (New York: Nation Associates, ca. 1946), also by Freda Kirchwey, Henry A. Atkinson, Reinhold Niebuhr, William L. Shirer, Jo Davidson, Philip Murray, Raymond Swing, and Frank Porter Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)

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