LOVETTSVILLE, VA. — Paul Wellstone wasn’t the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. That dubious distinction belongs to Ernest P. Lundeen, who was killed along with 24 ...

The catastrophic 1940 plane crash that killed U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen silenced one of the country's leading opponents of American intervention in World War II. But it wouldn't be long before a ...

The death of U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen in a mysterious plane crash in 1940 left a series of questions that lead to revealing threats to American democracy. It started with a plane crash.

WASHINGTON — When former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains on Aug. 31, 1940, he likely knew the Justice ...

Farmers attracted by a crash found the plane strewn over a clearing into ... was Minnesota’s 62-year-old Farmer-Labor Senator Ernest Lundeen, whose successor will be named by Republican Governor ...

Ernest Lundeen gave a "national speech on the radio ... Lundeen died in a mysterious plane crash with a piece of paper in his jacket in which he had a speech drafted that urged lawmakers not ...

The MSNBC host made the comparison at the beginning of her show on the network where she told viewers about the Minnesota senator Ernest ... Lundeen then died in a mysterious plane crash in ...

This isn’t a paywall. MinnPost’s reporting is always free, every single day. We rely on voluntary, tax-deductible donations from readers to support our work. Will you join them with a gift to ...