Artifacts
Coming to politics via community activism, Coya Knutson worked diligently to support her agriculturally-centered district in northwestern Minnesota. Also firmly believing that, as a nation, we could not “take the risk of limiting education to only those who can afford it,” Knutson wrote a measure creating the first mechanisms for a federal student financial aid program.
Coya Knutson Campaign Button, 1954–1960, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives