Representative Leonard C. Andersen View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 12/28/2014
Birth County: Marion
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 65 (1973) - 66 (1975)
House: 59 (1961) - 60 (1963)
62 (1967) - 64 (1971)
Home County: Woodbury
Leonard C. Andersen
Woodbury County
Sioux City Woodbury County Republican Born May 30, 1911, in Waukegan, Illinois, son of Lauritz F. and M. Marie Andersen. B. A. Huron College, Huron, S.D., 1933; M. A. University of South Dakota, 1937; one year law school Univ. of S.D. Married Charlotte O. Ritland and has four children, Karen, Charlene, Paul, and Mark. Member of the Church Council of the Morningside Lutheran Church, Life Underwriters Assn. and American Society of Public Administration, the Farm Bureau, the Board of the Mid-Sioux Corporation of the O.E.O., Hi 12, Lions, Masons, Independent Insurance Agents Assn., Board of Regents Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D., Board of Siouxland Opportunity Corporation., Head of Business Training Dept. Waldorf College, 1935-43. Presently in real estate investment and insurance business. Listed in Who's Who of the Midwest. Was State Representative from Woodbury County 1961-65, was reelected 1966 and 1968.