Our 29th Lucas County Prosecutor had the unique distinction of being elected a Toledo Municipal Judge (1925) prior to his 1930 election as Prosecutor.

Educated in the Toledo Public Schools, he graduated from St. John's University Law School in 1920, the same year he was admitted to the Ohio bar. Prior to being elected judge, Christensen served as an assistant City of Toledo law director, assigned as a police prosecutor. His long public service career even included a race for Mayor of Toledo, an election he lost by only 2000 votes in 1929, the year before he ran for and was elected Lucas County Prosecutor.

Handicapped as a young man by the loss of an arm in a railroad accident when he served as a brakeman for the New York Central Railroad (1911-1914), Christensen never let his disability interfere with his professional ambitions. His prominence in Republican politics culminated with his 1930 election as Lucas County Prosecutor, after which he retired to private law practice with his brother Wilfred. He attempted a race for State Senator in 1934 which was unsuccessful.

He died in 1948 at the age of 59.