page_title: John Lind (politician)
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: John Lind (politician) / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: 1898 political button promoting John Lind for Governor of Minnesota with the slogan "Let the people rule."
context_page_description: John Lind was an American politician. Lind played an important role in the Mexican Revolution as President Woodrow Wilson's envoy.
context_section_description: Lind was born in Kånna, Kronoberg County in the Swedish province of  Småland and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was thirteen years old. He served in the Spanish–American War in 1898. A former teacher and superintendent, he later graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School.
caption: John Lind campaign button
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