[2] In 1880, LeSueur left the family farm and moved to Arvilla, Dakota Territory, where he worked as a wood-cutter in the winter months and a grain thresher during the harvest season.

[16][17] During World War I, LeSueur was tapped to head the legal department of People's College, a socialist-oriented correspondence school located in Fort Scott, Kansas.

[18] During this time, LaSueur worked with Eugene V. Debs, a labor leader and Socialist Party of America candidate, who served as Chancellor of the school.

[19] During the years of World War I the Socialist Party of North Dakota dissolved, with its adherents joining the fledgling Nonpartisan League, headed by Arthur C. Townley.

[21] The Nonpartisan League developed financial problems in 1921, leading Townley to resign his post as president of the organization the following year.