John Hove Papers, 1930-1984
Collection Overview
Title: John Hove Papers, 1930-1984
ID: OGLMC1042
Primary Creator: Hove, John (1916-1984)
Extent: 1.5 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 10/11/1985
Subjects: Politics and Government - Democratic/Nonpartisan League (Dem/NPL)
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The John Hove Papers consist primarily of materials related to Hove's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1963. Arranged first are the campaign materials, including advertisements, correspondence, text of speeches and newspaper clippings. Also included is a document entitled "Thoughts on the Hove-Andrews Campaign." This document may have been composed by someone hired by the Hove campaign, as it highlights crucial differences between the candidates, and provides advice to Hove on how to best address these differences.
Following the campaign material are general documents related to the life of John Hove and his family. Included are newspaper clippings and correspondence, a limited edition printing of a poem by Thomas McGrath and the invitation and program from the 1965 inauguration of President Lyndon Johnson and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. Obituaries and memorials of Hove's death in 1984 are also included.
Collection Historical Note
John Hove Jr. was born on February 1, 1916 in Brampton, North Dakota. He was the son of Laura and John Hove Sr. He studied for three years at the high school in Brampton, before graduating from Britton (South Dakota) High School. He attended Valley City State College in 1933 and graduated in 1937.
He returned to teach at the Brampton High School after graduation. During the following summers, he took courses toward a Master's Degree in English at Stanford University. He briefly attended law school at the University of Chicago before moving to Jamestown in 1940. He taught at the Jamestown High School until 1942, when he entered the United States Navy. Hove served aboard an aircraft carrier during World War II and separated from the service in October 1945, with the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.
John Hove and Sylvia Hagen were wed at St. Olaf’s Lutheran Church in Devils Lake on March 3, 1945. Sylvia was born April 8, 1911 in Crary, North Dakota, and was the daughter of Otto and Bertha Hagen. John and Sylvia originally met at Valley City State College, where they both were students; Sylvia was also a teacher at Jamestown High School along with John. They had three children: John III, Jeffrey and Susan. Both sons died in car accidents; John III in 1969 and Jeffrey in 1972.
After World War II, John Hove completed a Master's Degree in English from the University of North Dakota. His 1946 thesis was entitled History of Public School Legislation in North Dakota. Following graduation, he was named head of the English Department at Mayville State College. While at Mayville, he took weekend and summer classes over the course of thirteen years and earned a Ph.D in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1959. His doctoral dissertation was entitled A Rationale for an Industrial Society. It was also in 1959, that he left Mayville to become head of the English Department at North Dakota Agricultural College, now North Dakota State University.
Both John and Sylvia Hove were involved with the Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party. When the family moved to Fargo, John became chair of the party's organization in Cass County, while Sylvia was active with the Democratic-NPL Women for many years. In 1963, Hove was nominated to run for the United States House of Representatives. This was a special election, caused by the death of Representative Hjalmar Nygaard. Hove lost the election to Republican Mark Andrews, a farmer from Mapleton. Andrews went on to serve seventeen years in the House and one term in the Senate. During the campaign, Hove broke two ribs. He also flew to Washington D.C. to meet President John Kennedy, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson and several other members of the Kennedy Administration.
Following his defeat, Hove returned to the English Department at NDSU. He chaired the North Dakota Council on the Arts from its inception in 1967 until 1981, and was active with the North Dakota Education Association. He was also appointed to the National Advisory Council of the Higher Education Act by President Lyndon Johnson, and was active in the Modern Language Association. Sylvia Hove served as executive director of the Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency from 1966 until 1982.
John Hove retired from NDSU in 1981. In doing so, he declined to be named professor emeritus, saying that the English Department needed the office space that would accompany the "hollow title" more than he needed the title.
John Hove died on August 22, 1984 at his home in Fargo. Sylvia Hove died on July 29, 2000 in Moorhead.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source: Sylvia Hove, Fargo, North Dakota
Acquisition Method: Donation; Acc.#85-1418
Preferred Citation: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid migrated to Archon in December 2013.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Campaign Advertisements and Press Releases, 1963
- Folder 2: "Kick Off Speech", 1963
- Folder 3: "TV Statement", 1963
- Folder 4: Questionnaire From and Response to the North Dakota League of Women Voters, 1963
- Folder 5: Questionnaire from and Response to the North Dakota Farm Bureau, 1963
- Folder 6: "Thoughts on the Hove-Andrews Campaign": September 22, 1963 (unsigned document highlights crucial differences between the candidates, and provides advice to Hove on how to address those differences), 1963
- Folder 7: "The Big Picture - Eastern District" (unsigned document breaks down voting patterns in eastern North Dakota counties in 1960 and 1962 elections), 1963
- Folder 8: Correspondence, 1963
- Folder 9: Newspaper Clippings, 1963
- Folder 10: General Newspaper Clippings and Correspondence: 1930-1982, undated
- Folder 11: Sylvia Hove: 1943, 1981, undated
- Folder 12: North Dakota Democratic-Non Partisan League Women: 1963-1966, undated
- Folder 13: Poem: Centameters by Thomas McGrath. Published by the Merrykit Press of Fargo, a limited edition of 40 hand-set copies
- Folder 14: 1965 Inauguration of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey
- Folder 15: North Dakota Council on the Arts and Humanities: 1967-1968
- Folder 16: 1982 Royal Viking Line Cruise to the Caribbean and Mexico
- Folder 17: Obituaries for John Hove (1984) and Sylvia Hove (2000)
- Folder 1: Campaign Advertisements and Press Releases, 1963
- Box 2
- Oversize Folder 1: 1963 Campaign advertisement October 1963 edition of The Leader (official publication of the Democratic-NPL Party); Poster entitled "To Be Read Aloud by a Democrat to a Republican or by a Republican to a Democrat," given to John and Sylvia Hove by Senator Quentin Burdick
- Scrapbook 1: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the 1963 election
- Oversize Folder 1: 1963 Campaign advertisement October 1963 edition of The Leader (official publication of the Democratic-NPL Party); Poster entitled "To Be Read Aloud by a Democrat to a Republican or by a Republican to a Democrat," given to John and Sylvia Hove by Senator Quentin Burdick
- Photographs :
- Photograph 1: President John Kennedy, with local Democratic-NPL leaders, undated
- Photograph 2: John Kennedy, John Hove and Joe Polk (?), December 1960
- Photograph 3: John Kennedy and John Hove, September 18, 1963 at the White House
- Photograph 4: John Kennedy and John Hove, September 18, 1963 at the White House
- Photograph 5: Vice President Lyndon Johnson and John Hove, September 18, 1963 at the White House (pictured in front of a portrait of Robert LaFollette)
- Photograph 6: Lyndon Johnson and John Hove, September 18, 1963 at the White House
- Photograph 7: Lyndon Johnson and John Hove, September 18, 1963 at the White House
- Photograph 8: Lyndon Johnson and John Hove, September 18, 1963 at the White House
- Photograph 9: Hubert Humphrey Speech, undated (inscribed and given to Hove as a gift from Humphrey)
- Photograph 10: Senator Quentin Burdick, undated (inscribed and given to John and Sylvia Hove from Burdick)
- Photograph 11: Quentin Burdick, Democratic National Campaign Committee Head Rhoades and John Hove, 1963
- Photograph 12: Quentin Burdick and John Hove, undated
- Photograph 13: Quentin Burdick, Edward Kennedy, John and Sylvia Hove, undated
- Photograph 14: John Hove, unidentified (probably member of Kennedy administration)
- Photograph 15: John Hove, unidentified (probably member of Kennedy administration)
- Photograph 16: Proof sheet: John Hove with unidentified members of the Kennedy administration
- Photograph 17: Proof sheet: John Hove with unidentified members of the Kennedy administration
- Photograph 18: Proof sheet: John Hove with unidentified members of the Kennedy admin
- Photograph 19: John Hove and North Dakota Governor William Guy: 1967
- Photograph 20: John Hove and North Dakota Governor William Guy: 1967
- Photograph 21: John Hove campaigning: 1963
- Photograph 22: John Hove supporters at a parade: 1963
- Photograph 23: John and Laura Hove; Mr. And Mrs. Leo Olson, undated
- Photograph 24: Laura Hove, undated
- Photograph 25: Unidentified (probably John and Laura Hove) undated
- Photograph 26: Otto and Bertha Hagen, undated
- Photograph 27: Otto and Bertha Hagen, undated
- Photograph 28: John Hove in Navy uniform
- Photograph 29: John Hove in Navy uniform
- Photograph 30: John Hove in Navy uniform (group photo)
- Photograph 31: John Hove, July 1963
- Photograph 32: John Hove, July 1963
- Photograph 33: John Hove, undated (group shot in front of a library)
- Photograph 34: Cynthia Selland, John Hove, Mayor Jon Lundgren, undated
- Photograph 35: John Hove, Phyllis (?) and Craig (?), undated
- Photograph 36: John Hove, undated
- Photograph 37: John Hove, undated (outside the family home in Fargo)
- Photograph 38: Sylvia Hagen, undated
- Photograph 39: Sylvia Hagen, undated (but from time at Jamestown High School)
- Photograph 40: Sylvia Hove, undated
- Photograph 41: Sylvia Hove, June 1981
- Photograph 42: Sylvia Hove, undated
- Photograph 43: Sylvia Hove, undated (outside the family home in Fargo)
- Photograph 44: John and Sylvia Hove, undated
- Photograph 45: John and Sylvia Hove, March 1945
- Photograph 46: John and Sylvia Hove, March 1945
- Photograph 47: John and Sylvia Hove, undated (outside the family home in Fargo)
- Photograph 48: John and Sylvia Hove, undated (on vacation in Devils Lake)
- Photograph 49: John and Sylvia Hove, undated
- Photograph 50: John and Sylvia Hove, undated (on vacation in International Falls, Minnesota)
- Photograph 51: John and Sylvia Hove, Phyllis and Gerry Hunter, undated (on vacation in International Falls, Minnesota)
- Photograph 52: John and Sylvia Hove, undated
- Photograph 53: John and Sylvia Hove, undated
- Photograph 54: John Hove III, undated (photo taken at 4.5 years of age)
- Photograph 55: John Hove III, undated (photo taken Senior year at Fargo Central High School)
- Photograph 56: John Hove III and John Hove Jr., undated
- Photograph 57: Jeffrey Hove, undated (photo taken at 2 years of age)
- Photograph 58: Susan Hove, 1972
- Photograph 59: Susan Hove, undated (graduation photo)
- Photograph 60: John, Sylvia and Susan Hove, 1975 wedding
- Photograph 61: John III and Jeffrey Hove, undated (John 4.5 years, Jeff 2 years)
- Photograph 62: John III, Jeffrey and Susan Hove, undated
- Photograph 63: John III, Jeffrey and Susan Hove, undated
- Photograph 64: Bob and Johanna Marshall (sister), 1979
- Photograph 65: Maxine and Oliver Hove (brother), undated
- Photograph 66: Margaret and Lance Hove (brother), undated
- Photograph 67: Dr. Gerry and Phyllis Hunter, 1970
- Photograph 68: Dr. Gerry and Phyllis Hunter, 1981
- Photograph 69: Dr. Gerry, Phyllis, Craig, Blair and Andrea Hunter, undated
- Photograph 70: Marg and Dave Scott, undated
- Photograph 71: Hagen home, 824 4th Avenue North, Devils Lake
- Photograph 72: 1314 Eight Street North Fargo (John and Sylvia Hove's first home in Fargo)
- Photograph 73: Interior - 31 Woodland Drive, Fargo
- Photograph 74: Sandbaggers, 31 Woodland Drive, Fargo
- Photograph 75: 1st flood, 31 Woodland Drive, Fargo
- Photograph 76: 1st flood, 31 Woodland Drive, Fargo
- Photograph 77: 1st flood, 31 Woodland Drive, Fargo
- Photograph 78: 2nd flood, 31 Woodland Drive, Fargo
- Photograph 79: 2nd flood, 31 Woodland Drive, Fargo
- Photograph 80: John and Sylvia Hove at a symphony ball
- This photograph was placed in the Oversize File Cabinets.
- Photograph 1: President John Kennedy, with local Democratic-NPL leaders, undated
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