Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: litchfield , minnesota - preceded: knute nelson general ticket adopted - term: july , 1925 march 4 , 1933 & ndash ; january 16 3 , 1935 , 1923 & ndash ; march 3 - party: minnesota farmer -- labor party - death date: 13 september 1936 - district: general ticket seat five - succeeded: thomas d. schall general ticket abolished - birth date: 19 september 1871 - state: minnesota - name: magnus johnson - image: magnusjohnson.jpg - birth place: karlstad , sweden - religion: lutheranism Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of magnus johnson .
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magnus johnson -lrb- september 19 , 1871september 13 , 1936 -rrb- was an american farmer and politician .he served in the united states senate and united states house of representatives from minnesota as a member of the farmer -- labor party .johnson was born near karlstad , sweden , and his family moved to la crosse , wisconsin , united states , in 1891 .-lrb- johnson is the only swedish-born person to serve in the u.s. senate . -rrb-they moved to meeker county , minnesota , in 1893 .he worked as a millhand and lumberjack , became a farmer , and by 1913 was the leader of the minnesota branch of the american society of equity and vice president of the equity-owned equity co-operative grain exchange and farmers ' terminal packing co. .he served in both the minnesota house of representatives and the minnesota senate before being elected to the u.s. senate on the farmer-labor ticket , to fill the seat opened because of the death of knute nelson .johnson served in the senate from july 16 , 1923 , to march 4 , 1925 , in the 68th congress .he lost his bid for reelection in 1924 .he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives and served march 4 , 1933 , to january 3 , 1935 , in the 73rd congress , winning one of the general ticket seats .subsequently , he resumed agricultural pursuits and served as state supervisor of public stockyards 1934 -- 1936 .he was an unsuccessful candidate for the farmer-labor nomination for governor of minnesota in 1936 ; and died in litchfield , where he had gone for medical treatment , on september 13 , 1936 ; interment in dassel cemetery , dassel , minnesota .