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Abdi Warsame

Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame. Photograph by Tony Webster, January 8, 2018. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sticker promoting Ilhan Omar's campaign for Minnesota State Representative, 2016. Omar won Minnesota's DFL state primary over forty-four-year incumbent DFL Representative Phyllis Kahn and was elected the nation's first Somali American legislator on November 8.

Ilhan Omar

Political candidate Ilhan Omar on the campaign trail, October 4, 2016. Omar won her election in 2017 and became the first Somali person to join the Minnesota State Legislature. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photograph of Somali Minnesotans protesting the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

Somali Minnesotans protest the 2008 Republican National Convention

Somali Minnesotans protest the 2008 Republican National Convention, held in St. Paul. Photograph by Flickr user relux, September 1, 2008. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Black and white photograph of thousands of farmers gathering at the Minnesota State Capitol to hear Governor Floyd B. Olson talk on farm relief, ca. 1935.

Farmers at the Minnesota State Capitol

Thousands of farmers gather at the Minnesota State Capitol to hear Governor Floyd B. Olson talk on farm relief, ca. 1935. Photograph by George E. Luxton.

Murray County Sesquicentennial

Reenactment of courthouse battle during the Murray County sesquicentennial celebration, 2007.

Slayton Courthouse

Murray County Courthouse in Slayton, ca. 1892.

Murray County Courthouse

Original Murray County Courthouse, Currie, 1880s.

William Porter “Pitt” Murray

Engraving of William Porter “Pitt” Murray, ca. 1870.

Murray County

Murray County was established in 1857 and formally organized in 1872. Although Currie was the original county seat, the city of Slayton won a contentious battle for that title in 1890. Agricultural production has been (and continues to be in the twenty-first century) the county’s primary industry.

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