{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"March of the Governors, Governor #25: Harold Stassen","description":" March of the Governors \u2013 Harold Stassen, Governor #25 Podcast #27   Harold Stassen, Minnesota\u2019s twenty-fifth governor, is among our most intriguing. He sprang to national attention as the state\u2019s \u201cBoy Governor,\u201d elected in 1938 at the age of thirty-one. Stassen was very popular in his over four years as  governor because of success with the legislature and in administering state government. He went on to be a US Navy commander in WWII; one of eight US delegates to the 1945 UN Charter Assembly; a top presidential candidate in 1948; president of the University of Pennsylvania; and a member of President Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s cabinet. Stassen also is credited by many with leading and inspiring a long line of progressive leaders in Minnesota\u2019s Republican Party.&amp;nbsp;   Today, however, Stassen is sometimes remembered not for his political accomplishments but for the many unsuccessful runs for political office in his last three decades. As a result, Stassen has become a joke to some political observers instead of the multitalented politician and public policy thinker that he was. ","author_name":"Ramsey County History podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/ramseyhistory.libsyn.com\/webpage","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/26710143\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/26710143"}