12.14.10

Print, Photographic

1955

Governor Orville Freeman, Dairy Parade. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 5". Description: black and white photo of Governor Orville Freeman riding in a Ford Sunliner car during the Dairy Parade; Cahill in front passenger seat; background: Furniture and Second Hand Store, 111 South State Street, Waseca, MN; Billiards and Pool Hall 109 South State Street, Waseca, MN; Mahler's Hardware Store, 107 South State Street, Waseca, MN; 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.