SHIPSTEAD, Henrik, a Senator from Minnesota; from Norwegian descent; born in Burbank, Kandiyohi County, Minn., January 8, 1881; attended the public schools at New London, Minn., and the State normal school at St. Cloud, Minn.; graduated from the dental department of Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill., in 1903 and practiced dentistry in Glenwood, Minn., 1904-1920; mayor of Glenwood 1911-1913; member, State house of representatives 1917; moved to Minneapolis in 1920 and resumed the practice of dentistry; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Congress in 1918 and for governor in 1920; elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket in 1922 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1928, 1934, and as a Republican in 1940 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; chairman, Committee on Printing (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses); died in Alexandria, Minn., June 26, 1960; interment in Kinkead Cemetery.

Senator Henrich Shipstead, in the U.S. Senate, May 15, 1946 called the Morgenthau Plan "America's eternal monument of shame, the Morgenthau plan for the destruction of the German-speaking people "(Congressional Record, Senate, p. 5039 of 15. Mai 1946).

Minnesota's Henrik Shipstead was one of the two senators who opposed ratification of the UNO Charter. On July 27, 1945, he told his colleagues that he found authority in the Charter for our president to take us into a UN-approved war at any time. "The control of the war power, as provided by in the Constitution, must remain in Congress if the United States is going to remain a republic," warned Shipstead. The SOVEREIGNTY of the United States is everything for us, and it should be noted that back in time, when the vote was taken in the Senate to approve or disapprove the UN Charter as a "treaty," the vote was 89 to 2. The two dissenting votes were by Senator William Langer of North Dakota and Senator Shipstead of Minnesota. Over half of the Senators who voted on the measure never even read the UN Charter that they were to vote on!

Henrik Shipstead paid greatly for his opinion on the Morgenthau Plan and his July 1945 vote against American adherence to the United Nations Charter: he was turned out of office in the 1946 Minnesota GOP primary, and he later admitted that. However, his warnings in 1945 did a great deal to abandon Morgenthau's infamous plan for the destruction of the German-speaking people.