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Date of Work
11-1975
Identification #
OGL204-71
Description
Photograph of the November 1975 Senate confirmation hearing of Thomas Kleppe as U.S. Secretary of the Interior. (From left to right: Representative Mark Andrews, Senator Milton Young, Kleppe, Senator Quentin Burdick.
Originally from Cass County, Mark Andrews represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981 and in the United States Senate from 1981 until 1987.
The son of Representative Usher Burdick, Quentin Burdick represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives from 1958 to 1960 and the United States Senate from 1960 until his death in 1992.
Thomas Kleppe was the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1975 to 1977. A former mayor of Bismarck, Kleppe served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 until 1971 and in the Small Business Administration from 1971 to 1975.
Milton R. Young represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1945 until 1981.
Places Depicted
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
People Depicted
Mark Andrews, Quentin Burdick, Thomas Kleppe, Milton Young
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
Keywords
Thomas Kleppe, Senate, Interior