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Senate Years of Service: BURSUM, Holm Olaf, a Senator from New Mexico; born at Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa, February 10, 1867; attended the public schools; moved to New
Mexico in 1881; settled near Socorro, Socorro County, and engaged in stock
raising; member, Territorial senate 1899-1900; chairman of the Territorial
central committee in 1905 and 1911; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1910; member of the Republican National Committee 1920-1924;
appointed on March 11, 1921, and subsequently elected on September 20, 1921, as
a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Albert B. Fall and served from March 11, 1921, to March 3, 1925;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924; chairman, Committee on Pensions
(Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses) engaged in the newspaper business at
Washington, D.C., and subsequently returned to Socorro, N.Mex., and resumed his
former business interests until his death in Colorado Springs, Colo., August 7,
1953; interment in Socorro Protestant Cemetery, Socorro, N.Mex. Contributed by A. Newell.
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