An active American (or Northern) Baptist, he held important positions in his denomination and in local and national councils of churches. Baptists writing memorials remembered him as much as a church figure as a political candidate. On the death of Happy Chandler, Stassen became the eldest governor of any U.S. state still living. When he died, the title was passed to Charles Poletti, a former governor of New York State.
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