Albert Fredric Berg (June 25, 1861 – February 13, 1920) was a Swedish-American farmer, educator, and politician. Berg served three terms as the eleventh Minnesota Secretary of State from 1895 to 1901 and a single term in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1901 to 1903.
Early life and career
Berg was born on June 25, 1861 in Center City, Minnesota to Swedish parents. He attended common school in Chisago County before studying at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota from 1877 to 1878 and Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota from 1878 to 1880. Berg worked for the Daily Argus newspaper of Fargo, North Dakota from 1979 until 1884. From 1884 to 1886 He was employed as a teacher for Chisago County schools.
Berg began his political career in 1886 when he became register of deeds for Chisago County, an office he held until 1894. He ran for Minnesota Secretary of State in the 1894 Minnesota Secretary of State election as a Republican against Minnesota Democratic Party candidate Charles J. Haines, Populist Party candidate Peter J. Seberger, and Prohibition Party candidate Charles Winger. Berg won 52.71% of the vote with a 28.85% margin of victory. He was re-elected in 1896 and 1898, serving a total of six years under Governors David Marston Clough and John Lind. He was succeeded by Peter E. Hanson.
Following his career as Minnesota Secretary of State, Berg served a single term in the Minnesota House of Representatives as a Republican for Minnesota's 63th District, representing Kittson County, Marshall County, and Roseau County. He later worked as a cashier and was director of the State Bank of Warroad in Warroad, Minnesota from 1904 to 1906. Berg died on February 13, 1920 at the age of 58 of pneumonia at the Mounds Park Sanitarium in Saint Paul, Minnesota and is buried in the Chisago Lake Cemetery in Center City, Minnesota.