Politics the Wellstone Way

That fall, Paul and Sheila Wellstone settled into the early years of a marriage that would span thirty-nine years. Paul took on a rigorous schedule of academics and athletics. In his second and final wrestling season, he went undefeated for the second year in a row and won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship. The following year, he graduated from North Carolina (after only three years), and Sheila gave birth to the first of their three children. Paul had become a champion wrestler, husband, father, and college graduate. He was twenty years old.

Wellstone went on to complete his Ph.D. in political science at North Carolina and, at age twenty-four, accepted a teaching position at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. As a professor, Wellstone focused on questions of economic justice and poverty and began engaging in local community-organizing projects in rural areas. “It was clear,” wrote one of his friends and former colleagues, “that he was less concerned about academic political science than about political science directly serving people’s needs.”

At Carleton, Wellstone immersed himself in campus activism by organizing protests, criticizing the school’s administration for its ties to corporate

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LEARN	Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues Wellstone Action Edited by Bill Lofy Books by and about Paul Wellstone	That fall, Paul and Sheila Wellstone settled into the early years of a marriage that would span thirty-nine years. Paul took on a rigorous schedule of academics and athletics. In his second and final wrestling season, he went undefeated for the second year in a row and won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship. The following year, he graduated from North Carolina (after only three years), and Sheila gave birth to the first of their three children. Paul had become a champion wrestler, husband, father, and college graduate. He was twenty years old. Wellstone went on to complete his Ph.D. in political science at North Carolina and, at age twenty-four, accepted a teaching position at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. As a professor, Wellstone focused on questions of economic justice and poverty and began engaging in local community-organizing projects in rural areas. “It was clear,” wrote one of his friends and former colleagues, “that he was less concerned about academic political science than about political science directly serving people’s needs.” At Carleton, Wellstone immersed himself in campus activism by organizing protests, criticizing the school’s administration for its ties to corporate 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6
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