Carl Chester Van Dyke (February 18, 1881 – May 20, 1919) was an American

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and

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from

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. Van Dyke was born in

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and attended the local public schools there. He taught primary school classes in surrounding Douglas County from 1899 to 1901. Later that year, he volunteered for the

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and served as a private in Company B, 15th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the

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. In 1916, he graduated from the St. Paul College of Law (later accredited as the

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) and was admitted to the

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. Van Dyke did not engage in extensive practice. He was elected Commander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans on September 6, 1918. Van Dyke was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in

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, May 20, 1919. On April 6, 1917, he voted against declaring war on Germany. His interment was in a mausoleum in Forest Cemetery, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Carl Chester Van Dyke entry
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