Representative David Monson
Assistant Majority Leader
North Dakota State Representative
PO Box 8
Osnabrock
ND
58269
701-496-3394, 701-993-8312
701-993-8313 (School)http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/59-2005/house/representatives/bios/davidmonson.html
Farmer. Superintendent in Edinburg. Board member NAIHC. Board member NEM. Board member UUSE. Board member NCCSTV. BS and Med degrees University of North Dakota. Knights of Pythias, PGC. Eagles. North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders. Farm Bureau. President Dovre Lutheran Church. Married. 3 children. Wife's name Mary. House of Representatives since 1993.
David Monson was born and raised in Cavalier County, a very rural area of northeastern North Dakota. He was raised on his family's farm, went to college at the University of North Dakota, and graduated from there in 1972 with a BS degree in Education. He taught science and psychology in southeastern North Dakota for three years until he and his wife, Mary, decided to move back home to help his dad run the family farm. He farmed in the summers and taught school in the winters. He got into educational administration as a secondary principal in 1976 and as a school superintendent in 1979. He switched careers in 1988 when he took over the family farm completely and began an insurance business. He was elected to the ND House of Representatives in 1992. In 1994 he got back into educational administration as a school superintendent, kept the insurance business, kept farming, and was re-elected to the ND House. Now he is semi-retired from education and is part-time superintendent at Edinburg School District. He is no longer in the insurance business. (Something had to give!) He and his wife Mary have three sons. Cordell is teaching music recording in Minneapolis where he also has his own band. Cale is a mechanical engineer living in Hoople, ND, with his wife Kristeen who is a math teacher in Grafton, ND. Jared works in Moorhead, MN in a dealership body shop and lives in Fargo.