John Dendahl

John Dendahl
Full name	John Hoge Dendahl
nation	United States
birthday	September 28, 1938
place of birth	Santa Fe
job	Politician columnist
date of death	November 9, 2013
Place of death	Denver , Colorado
Career
last change: May 1, 2010

John Hoge Dendahl (* 28. September 1938 in Santa Fe ; † 9. November 2013 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American politician of the Republican and columnist . In the 1960s, he was one of the top Nordic skiers in the United States.

John Dendahl studied at the University of Colorado and started for the university's ski team, with which he won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) title in 1959 . In 1960 he won the NCAA Nordic combined title . He also qualified for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , where he started alongside Mack Miller , Karl Bohlin and Peter Lahdenpera in the cross-country relay, which reached eleventh place.

From 1988 to 1990 Dendahl was Minister for Economic Development and Tourism in the US state of New Mexico . Dendahl served as chairman of his state's Republican Party from 1994 to 2003. In 1994, his application struck for candidacy for governor in the primaries failed his party. He ran again in 2006 for this office and this time was also set up by the Republicans, but lost with only 32 percent of the vote against the Democratic incumbent Bill Richardson .

Web links

• John Dendahl in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• The Political Graveyard

supporting documents

1. ↑ John Dendahl, 'pit bull' for GOP, dies , accessed November 19, 2014
2. ↑ John Dendahl, 75, feisty NM GOP chair respected by Democrats ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 19, 2014