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Arthur A. Hahn

American politician – Minnesota -Senate 1935-42 (District 21)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ111228144
Source-derived summary

Arthur A. Hahn (May 23, 1886 – December 27, 1959) was an American businessman and politician.

Hohn was born in Mayer, Carver County, Minnesota and graduated from Hutchinson High School in Hutchinson, Minnesota. Hahn moved to Scott County, Minnesota in 1925. He lived in Belle Plaine, Minnesota with his wife and family. He was in the retail mercantile business. Hahn served on the Belle Plaine City Council. He also served in the Minnesota Senate from 1935 to 1942. He died in Belle Plaine, Minnesota.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Arthur A. Hahn” is american politician – Minnesota -Senate 1935-42 (District 21). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Arthur, Hahn and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1959, 1925, 1935—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886-05-23. For this dossier, Arthur, Hahn and American is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “american politician – Minnesota -Senate 1935-42 (District 21)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111228144. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1886, 1959, 1925 and 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from Arthur A. Hahn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.