Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs

A Foundation for Sustainable Rural Community Development

Karl Earl Mundt

• CLC home page
• Introduction
• Report

Summary

• Purpose
• Commissioners
• Survey & Hearings
• Prominent Deficiencies
• Underlying Problem
• Migration
• Agriculture Challenges
• Public Health
• Role of Farm Women
• Conservation & Land Use
• General Corrective Forces
• Commission Recommendations
• Legislative Recommendations
• Remedies
• The Call for Leadership

Legacy

• American Country Life Association
• Rural Sociology
• American Farm Bureau Federation
• Highways
• Agricultural Economics

Resources

• Bibliography
• Web Resources
• Timeline

Karl Earl Mundt (1900-1974) was a prominent farm-state Republican who served as a United States Representative and Senator for 34 years. In 1923, he graduated from Carleton College and four years later received his Master’s degree from Columbia University. After teaching high school in Madison, SD, he was elected to Congress as representative of South Dakota’s First District in 1938. He served as a senator from 1948 to 1973. Mundt was on several subcommittees of the Appropriations Committee including: Agriculture, Defense Department, Interior Department, and Public Works. He was a conservationist, as well as member of several organizations and societies.

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