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Donald Wright Narrator Donald Wright Narrator Jim Mulrooney Warren Gardner Interviewers January 25, 27, 1974 Minneapolis, Minnesota Donald Wright -DW Jim Mulrooney -JM Warren Gardner -WG JM: This is January the 25th, and we’re in the home of Mr. Donald Wright in Minneapolis and talking to him about his own career as a legislator and about Governor [Floyd B.] Olson. Interviewing are Mr. Jim Mulrooney and Warren Gardner. Would you tell us something about your own background and your education, and then your career and how you got into politics? DW: Yes. I was born right here in Minneapolis. I was in the Glenwood Avenue area, and now I’m living in what is called Bryn Mawr; been in this area of the city all my life. I attended North High School in Minneapolis, and knew Floyd B. Olson there just as a student, nothing very close or personal with him. I went through night law school. My father was a lawyer. My father had been a member of the legislature in 1909 and 1911, so I was kind of brought up in an atmosphere of law and government and politics, and as a young man took an active part in the local improvement associations and such like, hanging around the fringes of political meetings and so forth, which at that time were usually out in people’s homes or in the backyards. I met Floyd Olson really in an intimate way the first time as students of the same night law school, and we were together very frequently, of course, every evening during sessions in the school, and for a good many bull sessions after the classes closed at some chicken shack or hamburger joint or someplace before we went home. JM: Were both of you married then, or neither of you? DW: I was not married then, and I don’t think he was, but I don’t know about that. I never had any personal contact with his family, or his wife. I never knew any of them. So, I sort of drifted into politics in about 1924. I was asked to take charge of a political campaign in the then Tenth Congressional District for the Republican Party, and I did that. I wanted to be a 1 candidate for the legislature, but a pretty good friend of my father’s and our family was the representative from this district. We’re sitting now in the same district as it was then. That gentleman, Mr. Frankie Nimocks, died, and then I became a candidate to succeed him, and it was in the election year of 1926, so I served a first term in the legislature in 1927. Now, at that time, if my memory is correct, Theodore Christianson had just become governor, and so I was in the legislature continuously thereafter for forty-four years: in the House of Representatives until 1935, and then in the Senate. Again, wanted to be senator, but Sherman Child was senator from our district, and he was a very confident man and a very well respected man, and I waited out the opportunity, or I should say the opportunity didn’t come until Sherman Child decided to voluntarily retire, and then I ran for the Senate and was elected, and then was there for the remainder of my activity in the legislature. JM: What kind of committees and problems did you really address yourself to as a representative and a senator all those years? Were there sort of special areas that were your pet areas? DW: No, there were no special areas, and I’m sorry I never had any special areas that I was barnstorming in as a member of the legislature. I’ve always felt a criticism of those who do. Some people get elected to legislature because they’re, for example, schoolteachers, and forever after that they can see nothing except schools through their legislative gun sights. I never had any particular ambition or any particular thing that I was sponsoring as a member of the legislature. Of course, in forty-four years of service, I can’t tell you how many different committees in the House and Senate that I’ve been chairman of. I can make a list of them, I guess. JM: Well, that’s an awfully long tenure. DW: I remember the first year that I was in the Senate there was a very close division between the so-called, in those days, liberals and conservatives, and I think we had thirty-seven conservatives, if my memory is correct. I think there were thirty-eight committees, and so every conservative had to be chairman of something. I’m not bragging about it particularly, and I could brag about it a little bit. I was made chairman of the Senate Committee on Temperance, liquor control it’s called now, something else now I guess, but that was my first assignment in the Senate, was chairman of that committee. And, I was chairman of the Public Highway Committee for a while, and then— JM: That’s a hot one. DW: Yeah. It was hot in those days, too. Then I was chairman of the Public Welfare Committee in the Senate. I: That’s another hot one. 2 DW: That is a hot one, yeah. Well, there was something else in between there. From the very first day that I was in the Senate, I was a member of the Tax Committee, as I was trying to tell you. They were short of manpower on our side, and I became a member of the Tax Committee in 1935, and I continued as a member of that until I was retired from the Senate, and finally I got to be chairman of the Senate Tax Committee. I can’t tell you when that was, maybe 1950 or 1960, or somewhere along there. In my last years in the Senate, my principal efforts were with respect to tax legislation, you know. Yeah. I did have a great deal to do with the passage of the sales tax law in Minnesota. JM: If we go back to the time when you and Floyd Olson were acquainted as law students together, how would you describe him at that time? What kind of characteristics did you notice and even did some of your other colleagues notice in him? Was he aggressive? DW: Well, he never missed a class that I can ever remember of. He never missed a class. He had access to the law offices of a lawyer by the name of Frank Larrabee. JM: Larrabee? DW: Yeah. Wasn’t that the man’s name? JM: Yeah. DW: Frank Larrabee. My father was a lawyer, and of course that’s where we did our homework, so to speak, without having to go down to the law library at the courthouse, which a lot of the boys did. I think Floyd took some of the boys over to the law office that he had access to, and I know I took some of the boys over to my father’s law office late in the afternoon, and you know, the evenings when we didn’t have class and all that. So no, he was just a natural good student. JM: Did he talk about politics, going into it as a career in those days? DW: Not that I ever remember, no. I don’t remember that. Although he was affiliated with a, well, I don’t think I should say he was affiliated with it. He attended the political conventions of his group, and he was active, more or less active in politics while he was in the law school. JM: Was he Non-Partisan League? DW: Yes, he was. That group was all an offshoot of the Non-Partisan League. JM: Could I ask, do you know as to whether or not Governor Olson’s family was poor? Would you rate them, regard them as a poor family? DW: I think so. 3 JM: You would? DW: I think they were, yeah. JM: Why do you say that? Did he eat enough? WG: Did he work during high school, that sort of thing? DW: I couldn’t tell you that. I knew a young man who lived very close to our family over there on Newton Avenue North, just off of Glenwood, and his name was Leonard Larson, and his father was here from Sweden or somewhere; an immigrant. There weren’t too many people there who could read and write very well. Leonard Larsen’s mother either was a cousin or something of Floyd’s mother, I think. Anyway, they were acquainted. Although Floyd’s family lived way up in North Minneapolis and Leonard was down here this way, from what Leonard had just dropped to me in casual conversation, I think their family was, well, I don’t know what you’d call poor in those days, but I certainly don’t think they were affluent at all, as we weren’t, either. I was in night law school even though my father was a lawyer. In those days, you didn’t have to have all these college degrees to get to be in a law school. I remember later on, later years, looking back over the situation and looking over all the lawyers that were in the Senate, I think one time I counted more than half of them that were night law school graduates. [laughs] JM: Yeah, that wasn’t rare, was it? DW: It was not rare, no.
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