Political Career
He served as prosecuting attorney for Morrison County, Minnesota from 1891 through 1893. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1906, as a Republican, serving in the 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, and 64th congresses. In 1916, he unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in the United States Senate. At the time of his death, Lindbergh was a candidate for Governor on the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party ticket and would have been the first Minnesota Governor from the party if he had been elected.
In 1913, he wrote Banking, Currency, and the Money Trust, and in 1917 he wrote "Why is Your Country at War?", attributing high finance as America's involvement in World War I. According to Eustace Mullins, plates of this book were confiscated and destroyed by Government agents. Also in 1917 Lindbergh brought articles of impeachment against members of the Federal Reserve Board including Paul Warburg and William Proctor Gould Harding. Lindbergh charged that the Federal Reserve Board members were involved "...in a conspiracy to violate the Constitution and laws of the United States..."
Charles August Lindbergh died in Crookston, Minnesota of brain cancer. He has a memorial plaque in the columbarium at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. According to his wish, son Charles scattered his ashes over the place near Sauk River, where the first Lindbergh home once stood.
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