In this segment of MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds, Britt Aamodt looks at the life of cartoonist Charles Schulz.

Minnesotans elected Floyd B. Olson as the state’s first Farmer-Labor party governor in 1930, during the height of the Great Depression. During this tough time, thousands of people across the country were out of work, dealing with bread lines, and losing their farms to foreclosure. MN90 producer Marisa Helms introduces us to Floyd B. Olson, who became the hero Minnesotans were hoping for.

Seth Eastman was a soldier and an artist stationed at Fort Snelling in the 1830s and 1840s. As MN90 producer Marisa Helms reports, Eastman’s greatest contribution to history was his accurate and un-romanticized depictions of Dakota and Ojibwe people in the area of the fort. Because Eastman took an anthropological view in his art, today’s historians can learn about Native practices and cultural artifacts from the era.

Britt Aamodt reports on Alonzo J. Whiteman, a Minnesota legislator from Duluth. By the time he died in 1922, Whiteman was wanted in forty cities, with more than forty arrests and eleven convictions to his name.