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Oscar L. Heltzen

American lawyer and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ61670626 ↗
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Oscar Leonard Heltzen (August 4, 1882 – February, 1968) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of Rhode Island from 1929 to 1930.

He was born in Clifton Forge, Virginia, to Charles Leonard Heltzen and Anna Mathilde Johnson.

He attended Hope High School, and graduated from Harvard College in 1906.

He was active in the Central Congregational Church.

He married Mildred Bancroft Knight in 1908.

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Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882, 1968, 1929, 1930—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1882-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Oscar, Heltzen and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american lawyer and politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q61670626. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1882, 1968, 1929 and 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oscar L. Heltzen” 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.