Stanley W. Holmquist was a Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 politician, a former state legislator

Minnesota House of Representatives

The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B...

, and a former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader.

Background

Holmquist was born in Hallock, Minnesota

Hallock, Minnesota

Hallock is a city in and the county seat of Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 981 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.U.S...

, the son of Minnesota State Representative, Victor Holmquist. He attended Minnehaha Academy High School and the Augustana Lutheran Synod Minnesota College. He graduated from the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

; B.S.; (1936) and M.A.; Educational Administration, (1940).

Career

Holmquist served as Superintendent and Principal of Grove City

Grove City, Minnesota

Grove City is a city in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 635 at the 2010 census.U.S. Route 12 and Minnesota State Highway 4 are two of the main arterial routes in the community.-Geography:...

 schools, and worked as a lumber

Lumber

Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....

 dealer. He was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives

Minnesota House of Representatives

The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B...

 in 1946, and later was elected to the Minnesota Senate

Minnesota Senate

The Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. In terms of membership, it is the largest upper house of any state legislature. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House...

 in 1954.

Holmquist served as the majority leader

Majority leader

In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.In the federal Congress, the role differs slightly in the two houses. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the...

 of the Conservative Caucus in the nonpartisan

Nonpartisan

In political science, nonpartisan denotes an election, event, organization or person in which there is no formally declared association with a political party affiliation....

senate from 1967 until his retirement in 1973.