Eliot Glassheim
Member of the North Dakota House of Representatives
from the 18th district
In office
January 5, 1993 – January 2017
Succeeded bySteve Vetter
Personal details
Born(1938-02-10)February 10, 1938
New York City, U.S.
DiedDecember 25, 2019(2019-12-25) (aged 81)
Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseDyan Rey
EducationWesleyan University (BA)
University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque (MA, PhD)

Eliot Glassheim (February 10, 1938 – December 25, 2019) was a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, representing the 18th district from 1993 until 2017. He served as a Representative previously in 1975. Glassheim served on the Grand Forks City Council from 1982 to 2012. He obtained B.A. from Wesleyan University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. Glassheim founded Dr. Eliot's Twice Sold Tales, a used bookstore, which he owned until January 2015. Glassheim also wrote several books and poems.[1][2][3]

Glassheim was the Democratic-NPL nominee for the 2016 U.S. Senate election. He lost to incumbent Republican Sen. John Hoeven by nearly 62 percentage points. He died December 25, 2019, from lung cancer.[4][5]

Personal

Glassheim was Jewish.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Haley, Charly (January 2, 2016). "Mocks buy Glassheim's used bookstore in Grand Forks". Grand Forks Herald. Forum Communications. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Eliot Glassheim | North Dakota Legislative Branch". www.legis.nd.gov.
  3. ↑ "Eliot Glassheim Papers, 1982-1984, 1997-1999 | Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections". apps.library.und.edu.
  4. ↑ Mook, Sydney (26 December 2019). "Longtime Grand Forks politician Eliot Glassheim dies at 81". Grand Forks Herald.
  5. ↑ "Service set for longtime Grand Forks politician Eliot Glassheim". 27 December 2019.
  6. ↑ Kampeas, Ron; Fingerhut, Eric. "'Kvelling' for Obama". jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 12 April 2020.


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