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American politician
Harold Henry Barker
(15 June 1889 – 23 March 1949) was a Minnesota
Farmer-Laborite
politician, candidate for
Governor of Minnesota
, and a
Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
. He was elected to the
Minnesota House of Representatives
, in 1930, where he caucused with the
Liberal Caucus
in the then-nonpartisan body. In 1937, he was elected to serve as speaker, a position he held for two years. His father,
H. W. Barker
, served in the
Wisconsin State Senate
.
In 1946, Barker served as the second gubernatorial candidate after of the merger of the Minnesota Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties into the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, losing to
Luther Youngdahl
.
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