Griggs, Orrin Harold "O.H."

Sessions Served

Other Information

Senate 1915-18 (District 61)

Party when first elected: Nonpartisan Election

Counties Served: St. Louis

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: 9/23/1883 (uncertain)

Birth Place: Barclay, Pennsylvania

Birth County:

Birth Country: United States

Date of Death: 7/4/1958

Gender: Male

Religion:

Reported Minority: None Reported

Other Names: O.H.

City of Residence (when first elected): Virginia

Occupation (when first elected): Lawyer

EDUCATION

Virginia Public Schools, Minnesota; Elementary School;
Virginia High School; Secondary; First Graduate, June 1901
University of Minnesota, Law School; Law Degree; 1901-1904; Admitted to the Bar, 1904

OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Military: American Red Cross (World War I, Served Overseas, Captain); 191? to 191?

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

Spouse: Clara Tangier Smith (married December 20, 1908); Gladys Davis
Children: Two children: Dorothy and Betsy (daughters)
Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature:

GENERAL NOTES

Toensing and In Memoriam list his birth year as 1883. The Minnesota Legislative Manuals, 1915 and 1917 list his birth year as 1884.

He came to Virginia, Minnesota in October 1893. He moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1919. He moved to Hollywood, California in 1924.

"Orrin Harold Griggs was, without question, a principal developer of the beginnings on the Iron Range, which have brought it to its present point of development." (In Memoriam: Senators Claude Baughman, O.H. Griggs, Charles A. Lund, Archie H. Miller, Hans C. Pedersen, Edward R. Ribenack, and R.C. Sletten. State of Minnesota Senate Chamber, April 3, 1959, p. 6.)

He died in Hollywood, California.