Blatnik was elected to the U.S. Congress from Minnesota in 1946 and served 28 years. becoming chairman of the House Committee on Public Works in 1981. The citation for John Blatnik noted: Johns unique backgroundgrowing up under the wise guidance of immigrant parents during a severe economy depression in a multiethnic mining and agricultural area that he later represented for nearly three decadescontributed to making him a natural selection for a seat on the board of directors of a budding nonprofit organization devoted to the exploration of the use of humor from the earliest societies to the present. He enlightened us with his stories of his fathers advicebroken but pointed Englishto his congressional son. John can laugh at himself and deeply appreciates the keen and craftily directed wit of his late father.
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