![]() ![]() 1906 - November 27, residents, by a two to one margin, voted for incorporation and elected the following individuals:.1905 - The Opera House (now Thornton House Furniture) was built on School Street, the Lodi Improvement Club (now the Lodi Woman’s Club) was formed, and in August the Central California Traction Company began construction of an electric passenger rail line linking Lodi to Stockton and Sacramento.Wilton Mason owns the first automobile in Lodi. 1900 - Lodi is the second largest community in San Joaquin County with a population of 1,500 in the Spring, Dr.1899 - Lodi is said to have 2,346,061 grapevines.1897 - Wilhelm and Charlotta Heib arrive in Lodi with their eight children they were the first of a wave of migration by Dakotans of German descent - a group that would shape the City’s development through the present day.1896 - Tom and Wood Henderson buy hardware dealership from John Collins, and Henderson Bros.1891 - Water and gas service provided to citizens.Langford launches the original Bank of Lodi with a capital stock of $25,000. 1887 - Fire destroys downtown area along Sacramento Street.1886 - Grown without irrigation, 3,000 carloads of watermelons were shipped from Lodi.1881 - Ralph Ellis founds the Lodi News-Sentinel, originally headquartered on Elm Street.1880 - San Joaquin County raises the largest single wheat crop in the world - some 3.4 million bushels, much of it grown in Lodi.1878 - Lodi’s population is 450 Gertie DeForce Cluff establishes Lodi’s first newspaper the Valley Review San Joaquin County is divided into five Districts with Lodi in the 4th.1876 - The Lodi Flouring Mill is established in a brick building at the southwest corner of Main and Locust Streets it was capable of producing more than 200 barrels of flour a day.1874 - March 21, Assembly Bill 639 changes town’s name from Mokelumne to Lodi.Burt establish the Ivory Store, which was located at the corner of Pine and Sacramento Streets it acted as a magnet of sorts, drawing homesteaders and other businesses to the area. 1869 - City of Lodi founded in August Charles O.He presently serves on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, is an AIPAC Board Member, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He appeared at a McCain Straight Talk Town Hall Meeting in Lakeville, MN on October 10, 2008. He also supported John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election. Bush named Boschwitz as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which met at the U.N. Bush's campaign fund in that election cycle. He was a top "Bush Pioneer" in 2000, fund-raising $388,193, and a "Bush Ranger" in 2004, raising a minimum of $200,000 for George W. Operation Solomon took twice as many Beta Israel émigrés to Israel as Operation Moses and Operation Joshua combined. That is, the Ethiopian Government released 14,325 Jewish people to Israel by a massive airlift. The negotiations led by Boschwitz while in Ethiopia resulted in Operation Solomon. ![]() In 1991 he traveled to Ethiopia as the emissary of President George H. Boschwitz was well known in Minnesota for operating a "Flavored Milk" booth at the Minnesota State Fair.Īfter his defeat in 1990 by Wellstone, Boschwitz ran against Wellstone again in 1996 but failed to regain his seat. He was the founder and chairman of a plywood and Home Improvement retailer, Plywood Minnesota, which later became Home Valu Interiors.īoschwitz was elected as an Independent-Republican to the United States Senate in November 1978 and was subsequently appointed on December 30, 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wendell Anderson. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps 1954–1955. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1954 and the Wisconsin bar in 1959. A graduate of The Pennington School, he attended Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, graduated from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1950, and the New York University School of Law in 1953. In 1933, when he was three years old, his Jewish family fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, settling in New Rochelle, New York, where he grew up. ![]() He was then defeated by Paul Wellstone.Ĭontents Life and career Boschwitz was born in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 1930, the son of Lucy (née Dawidowicz) and Eli Boschwitz. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, in the 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses. Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz (born November 7, 1930) is a former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. ![]()
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