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
2009: Bill Cooper, CEO, TCF Bank
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
Harold Stassen Links and Information
| 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 |
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