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5 unusual facts about Wendell Anderson


James Lukaszewski

In 1973, Lukaszewski served as an adult intern in the Press Office of former Minnesota Governor Wendell R. Anderson.

John Earl Haynes

During the last years of the 1970s Haynes served as a legislative assistant to Sen. Wendell Anderson, a Democratic Governor of Minnesota named to replace Walter Mondale in the United States Senate when the latter was elected Vice President of the United States.

Minnesota Fighting Saints

Among the players the Saints selected in the inaugural WHA draft in 1972 was a defenseman who had played for Team USA at the 1956 Winter Olympics, Wendell Anderson.

Wendell Anderson

(Not to be outdone, another WHA team selected Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin.)

Today, he is regularly called upon to act as a commentator on Minnesota politics for local stations such as KSTP-TV.



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