12.14.4
Print, Photographic
1955
Governor Orville Freeman. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 5". Description: black and white photo of Governor Orville Freeman next to Impala car at Patton Chevrolet Company, State Street; Lawrence Clemons kneeling next to car; Dale Kritzer and John Cahill standing next to car; Governor Freeman visited Waseca for June Dairy month.
Photos found at an estate sale in Owatonna, MN. Orville Freeman was born 9 May 1918 and died 20 February 2003. Freeman was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from 5 January 1955 to 2 January 1961. Freeman served in the United States Marines during the battle of the Bougainville Campaign of November 1943 and was shot and injured in the jaw and left arm.