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Photographs personal residences of lawyers and judges in Minnesota.
Photographs of Historic Federal Courthouses in Minnesota.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota - Part One.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota: Part Two.
Photographs of Historic County Courthouses in Minnesota: Part Three.
Photographs of the St. Paul City Hall-Ramsey County Courthouse. (1932).
































Viewing David M. Hanson (1826-1856).


David M. Hanson (1826-1856).

A year after he arrived in Minnesota Territory in 1853, David M. Hanson was elected to the Territorial Assembly, representing Hennepin County in the House of Representatives. A year later he ran for a seat on the Territorial Council and again was elected. Toward the end of his term on the Council, he was felled by typhoid fever. He died on March 27, 1856, at age 30. His obituary in Sauk Rapids Frontiersman noted:

"A lawyer of great ability, and possessed of many generous and noble qualities, he had become somewhat distinguished in public life."

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