Roy Willard Ranum (August 11, 1898 – February 5, 1990) was an American politician and papermaker. Ranum was born in

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. He moved to

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in 1909 and graduated from Fairbault High School in 1918. Ranum then moved to

Cloquet, Minnesota Cloquet ( ) is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. Part of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and serves as one of the reservation's three admi ...

, in 1919, and worked as a papermaker for the Northwest Paper Company. He lived with his wife and children in Cloquet. Ranum served on the Cloquet Civil Service Board and on the Cloquet Park Board. He also served as Mayor of Cloquet from 1939 to 1943 and from 1952 to 1959. Ranum served in the

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from 1943 to 1946 and was a

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.Minnesota Legislators: Past & Present-Roy Willard Ranum
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1898 births 1990 deaths People from Cloquet, Minnesota People from Faribault, Minnesota People from Sparta, Wisconsin Papermakers Mayors of places in Minnesota Republican Party Minnesota state senators {{Minnesota-politician-stub