US Congressman. He was born Einar Andersen Hoidale to Lars Andreas Hoidale and Dortea Elisa Pedersdatter Lund in Tromso, Norway, and the family immigrated to the United States and settled in Dawson, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, in 1879. In 1890, he became interested in the newspaper business and served as the editor of the weekly Western Guard Newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. He was educated locally in common public schools and later entered the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he studied law and graduated from the school's law department in 1898. He was admitted to the bar that same year and he commenced to practicing law with Henry Northrup Somsen after relocating to New Ulm, Minnesota. He then was named as the Prosecuting Attorney of Brown County, Minnesota, from 1900 to 1906, and during this time he also actively continued newspaper pursuits by becoming a publisher in Dawson, Minnesota, and Madison, Minnesota, between 1900 and 1904. He then became Judge Advocate for the Minnesota State Militia from 1900 to 1908. In 1907, he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he continued his practice of law for a few more years. He ran as an unsuccessful Democratic Candidate as Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1930, and 1932. He was also an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1930. He then ran for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected. A Democrat, he then served Minnesota as At-Large (Seventy-Third Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1935. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1934. After his term in the United States Congress expired he was not succeeded in office as the General Ticket was abolished. When he was running for a seat in the United States Senate to represent the State of Minnesota he lost a subsequent election after being nominated. In both of his United States Senate campaigns, he was involved in competitive three-way races with Republican Party and Farmer Labor Party candidates and came in second place both times. During the 1930, Senatorial race he was barely defeated by Republican incumbent Thomas Schall, ahead of former Congressman and future senator Ernest Lundeen of the Farmer Labor Party. He lost to Farmer Labor Party incumbent Henrik Shipstead in 1934. He lastly ran as an unsuccessful Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936. He at some time in his life had married Martha Skjel and the couple had four children (Elsa was born in 1914, Mouraine was born in 1915, Sherwood was born in 1916, and Jean S. was born in 1917). His wife passed away on June 5, 1947, in Oslo, Norway, at the age of 66. He passed away in Saint Petersburg, Florida, while on vacation at the age of 82, and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a lifelong member of the Masons and Elks Lodge.