- Joan Growe
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name= Joan Growe
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order= 19th
office= Minnesota Secretary of State
term_start=January 6 ,1975
term_end=January 4 ,1999
predecessor=Arlen Erdahl
successor=Mary Kiffmeyer
birth_date= birth date and age|1935|9|28
birth_place=Minneapolis, Minnesota
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party=Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
footnotes=Joan Anderson Growe (born
September 28 ,1935 ) served asSecretary of State ofMinnesota for 24 years, beginning in 1975. Prior to that, she was a member of theMinnesota House of Representatives . In 1984 she unsuccessfully challenged Republican senatorRudy Boschwitz , losing the election with 41% of the vote.She was known for her work to encourage voter participation. While in the Legislature, she supported the Minnesota same-day voter registration law (the first in the country), and as Secretary of State worked to implement it. Since then, Minnesota has consistently had the highest voter turnout in the US. She is widely recognized as an expert in voting & elections, and has been selected to serve as an official election observer in various foreign elections.
External links
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19981111190520/http://www.sos.state.mn.us/ Archived version of her Secretary of State Website]
* [http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00043.html Joan Growe: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society]References
* [http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10219 Minnesota Legislators Past and Present]
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