Wednesday, July 24, 2024

They didn’t hold a grudge either

From Links for July 2024 from Astral Codex Ten.  

William “Wild Bill” Langer was governor of North Dakota in the 1930s. He’s best known for his corruption trial; after receiving a guilty verdict, he “signed a Declaration of Independence of North Dakota, declared martial law in Bismarck, and barricaded himself in the governor's mansion”. The North Dakotans didn’t go along with it, but they didn’t hold a grudge either - they re-elected him two years later.

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