Albert N. Carlblom

Who was Albert N. Carlblom?

Albert N. Carlblom was a North Dakota public servant and politician with the Republican Party who served as the North Dakota State Auditor from 1899 to 1902.

Albert Carlblom was born in Cokato, Minn. to a family of Swedish Lutheran immigrants. He was the son of John G. and Elizabeth Anderson Carlblom and graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1886. Following several years of teaching and terms of public office in Sargent County, North Dakota, he married Josephine Peterson in 1898. A year later he became North Dakota State Auditor. After serving two terms as State Auditor, he did not seek re-election to the office in 1902. Instead he chose to return to the prairie and operate the first building constructed in Gwinner, North Dakota. In 1920 he died at a hospital in Breckenridge from injuries incurred from a cyclone. He had three children: Vera Lenore Carlblom, Edna Carlblom Howell, and Albert N. Carlblom.