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Line 43: \|battles = [[American Civil War]] }} '''Knute Nelson''' (born '''Knud Evanger'''; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an ~~[[United States\|~~American]] attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the [[Wisconsin Legislature\|Wisconsin]] and [[Minnesota Legislature\|Minnesota]] legislatures and to the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate]] from Minnesota, and served as the [[List of governors of Minnesota\|12th governor of Minnesota]] from 1893 to 1895. Having served in the Senate for 28 years, 55 days, he is the longest-serving Senator in Minnesota's history. Nelson is known for promoting the [[Nelson Act of 1889]] to consolidate Minnesota's [[Ojibwe]]/[[Chippewa]] on a reservation in western Minnesota and break up their communal land by allotting it to individual households, with sales of the remainder to anyone, including non-natives. This was similar to the [[Dawes Act of 1887]], which applied to Native American lands in the [[Indian Territory]].

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