due to Langer's lobbying, Sandberger's sentence was commuted and he served only 13 years in custody. After the Nonpartisan League merged with the state Democratic party, Langer remained on the Republican ticket in the 1958 Senate elections and won without making a single campaign appearance in the state. He voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Langer died in Washington, D.C. on November 8, 1959. He was the last U.S. senator to lie in state in the Senate Chamber until Robert Byrd of West Virginia in 2010. Political offices 1914–1916: State's Attorney for Morton County 1916–1920: Attorney General of North Dakota 1933–1934: Governor of North Dakota (removed from office) 1937–1939: Governor of North Dakota 1941–1959: United States Senate Works The Famine in Germany. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1946. See also 1952 United States Senate election in North Dakota 1958 United States Senate election in North Dakota List of United States senators expelled or censured List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99) Footnotes Further reading Holzworth, John M. The Fighting Governor: The Story of William Langer and the State of North Dakota. Chicago: The Pointer Press, 1938. Smith, Glenn H. Langer of North Dakota: A Study in Isolationism, 1940–1959. New York: Garland Publishers, 1979. Smith, Glenn H. "William Langer," in Thomas W. Howard, ed. The North Dakota Political Tradition. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1981. Tweton, D. Jerome. "The Politics of Chaos: North Dakota in the 1930s," Journal of the West, Fall 2002, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 30–35. External links William Langer Papers at the University of North Dakota North Dakota Governors – William Langer Entry on the secession of North Dakota Várdy, Steven Béla and Tooly, T. Hunt: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe Available as MS Word for Windows file (3.4 MB) (the result of the conference on Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe held at Duquesne University in November 2000.) Sub-section by CHARLES M. BARBER, ''The Isolationist as Interventionist: Senator William Langer on the Subject of Ethnic Cleansing, March 29, 1946 pp. 244–262 William Langer mentioned in Episode 7 of Rachel Maddow's Ultra podcast (2022) |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1886 births 1959 deaths 20th-century American politicians 20th-century Roman Catholics American people of German descent American prosecutors Burials in North Dakota Catholics from North Dakota Columbia College (New York) alumni Governors of North Dakota Non-interventionism Nonpartisan League state