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Glewwe Stassen, Esther G.
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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Esther G. Glewwe Stassen |
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Bloomington, Minnesota , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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May 14, 1906
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| Died | October 07, 2000
(94 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
Nov 13, 2007 02:03pm |
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| Info | Esther Glewwe Stassen, who entertained U.S. presidents, diplomats and heads of state as wife of former Minnesota governor and U.S. presidential candidate Harold Stassen, died Saturday. She was 94.
During the writing of the United Nations charter in 1945 in San Francisco, where Stassen was a delegate, Mrs. Stassen was instrumental in keeping negotiations from breaking down, her husband said Sunday. As hostess to the other delegates’ wives, she learned that the Soviet diplomats couldn’t freely negotiate because of an order from dictator Josef Stalin. Mrs. Stassen told her husband, who got word to President Truman. The president flew a diplomat to Moscow to meet with Stalin, who gave new orders to his delegates. The deadlock was broken and the negotiations continued. "It was all because of her and what she was able to find out," said Stassen, who is now 93.
The Stassens, married for 70 years, had a son and a daughter. He served as Minnesota’s governor from 1939 to 1943 and later became famous as a perennial Republican presidential candidate.
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