THE HAROLD STASSEN
LEADERSHIP AWARD

In May, 2001, in memory of Former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, the MNYR Executive Board created the Harold Stassen Leadership Award to honor the MNYR founder. The first recipient of this award was Second District Congressman Mark Kennedy, who in 2000 won a close and hard-fought election battle, which culminated in a month-long recount, against 4-term incumbent David Minge to become the only Republican to unseat an incumbent Democrat in the country that year. The MNYRs look forward to bestowing this award at our annual dinner to the Republican leader who has fought hardest to preserve our principles and build our party.

Past Recipients

2007:  Jason Lewis, "Minnesota's Mr. Conservative" on KTLK-FM

2006: Lt. Colonel Robert Stephenson, Co-Chairman, Minnesota Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission, www.familiesunitedmission.com/docs/families/
midwest/stephenson.shtml

2005: John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson, "Powerline Bloggers", www.powerlineblog.com

2002: U.S. Senator Norm Coleman

2001: Second District Congressman Mark Kennedy

Born:  13 April 1907

Birthplace:  West St. Paul, Minnesota

Death:  4 March 2001 (natural causes)

Best Known As:  Persistent candidate for the U.S     Presidency

Encyclopedia Americana:  Grolier's brief but     lively Stassen entry, with emphasis on his presidential     futility

Harold Stassen Oral History:  Stassen talks in     detail about his role in the early days of the U. N.

Harold Stassen Obituary:  Mark Bernstein from     the University of Pennsylvania Gazette

Harold Stassen Papers:  An introduction and     biography from the Minnesota Historical Society; you     can't view the papers online