Mark Dayton

Mark Dayton

Mark Brandt Dayton (born January 26, 1947 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party ( DFL ). From 2001 to 2007 he represented the state of Minnesota in the United States Senate . In November 2010, he successfully ran for the office of governor of Minnesota, which he held from January 3, 2011 to January 7, 2019.

Life

Dayton grew up in Long Lake , Minnesota. After attending The Blake School , he completed a degree at Yale University , which he graduated with honors in 1969. He was also a goalkeeper on the university's ice hockey team and the Delta Kappa Epsilon student association . He then worked in New York City and Boston before returning to Minnesota.

There he ran for the US Senate in 1982, but was defeated by the Republican incumbent David Durenberger . Dayton worked intermittently as an advisor to Senator Walter Mondale . In 1990 he was elected a State Auditor , serving as the head of the State Audit Office from 1991 to 1995. In 1998 he ran for the gubernatorial election, but failed in the democratic primary elections. Two years later he ran for the office of Senator and won the election against incumbent Rod Grams of the Republican Party. In February 2005 he announced that he did not want to run for re-election, so that he left office in January 2007.

In 2009, he announced his candidacy for governor of Minnesota. In the intra-party primaries, he was just able to prevail over Margaret Anderson Kelliher , spokeswoman for the House of Representatives from Minnesota , so that he ran for the Democrats in the November 2010 election. The election result was extremely narrow with 43.63% for Dayton versus 43.21% for the Republican candidate Tom Emmer , so that an automatic recount of the votes was necessary. When it became clear that Dayton was unreachable in this one, Emmer admitted his electoral defeat. So Dayton could succeed Tim Pawlenty as governor of Minnesota on January 3, 2011 .

For the gubernatorial election on November 4, 2014 Dayton successfully ran for a second term. The internal party primaries won Dayton with 92 percent of the vote significantly. On the actual election day, he was able to defeat his Republican challenger, former State MP Jeff Johnson , with 50.1 versus 44.5 percent of the vote. The polls leading up to the election already saw a head start for Dayton.

On January 24, 2017, Dayton issued a statement announcing that he had prostate cancer . The day before he had collapsed during his State of the State Address in front of the plenary session of the State Legislature and still needed medical attention in the Capitol. However, its collapse is said not to be related to cancer. His office said the governor wants to undergo treatment quickly and plans to end his term of office, which will run until January 2019.

Web links

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• Mark Dayton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Mark Dayton in the National Governors Association (English)
• The Minnesota Historical Society

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Real Clear Politics: Minnesota Governor: Mark Dayton vs. Jeff Johnson
2. ^ After shocking collapse, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton announces he has prostate cancer , Washington Post, January 24, 2017