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Neil Haugerud began his career
in public office when he was Elected sheriff of Fillmore County in 1958. In 1968, he was elected to the Minnesota House of
Representatives, where he served until 1977 He was appointed chairman of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission by President
Carter in 1977. He began publishing the column "Jailhouse Stories" in the Fillmore County Journal. Neil Haugerud is the author of Jailhouse
Stories: Memories of a Small-Town Sheriff and Do-it-yourself guide to Minnesota probate.
According to the book description
of Neil Haugerud’s Jailhouse Stories,
“In the 1950s and 1960s, Neil Haugerud served as sheriff of Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota. In Jailhouse
Stories, Haugerud describes what it was like to live next to a prison, where jailbirds and jailbreaks were part of family
life. We meet colorful people on both sides of the law, whose problems range from the ordinary to the offbeat to the downright
bizarre. In the end, Haugerud emerges with his faith in human nature intact.”
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