Norm Coleman

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Norm Coleman

Norman Bertram "Norm" Coleman Jr. (born August 17, 1949 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American politician . He was Mayor of St. Paul and served in the United States Senate for Minnesota from 2003 to 2009 .

Life

After graduating from university, Coleman married actress Laurie Coleman , with whom he has two children.

In 1994 he became mayor of St. Paul. Two years later, Coleman moved from the DFL to the Republican Party . In his 1998 candidacy for governor of Minnesota, he failed against Jesse Ventura . In 2002 Coleman was elected to the Senate when he was just able to prevail against Walter Mondale , who stood in for the fatally injured Paul Wellstone at short notice .

Coleman's political work has changed significantly over the course of his career. At the beginning he was still a liberal Democrat who campaigned for the anti-war movement in the 1970s, but later he turned into a conservative Republican. He is an active opponent of gay marriage and abortion . On the other hand, he speaks out against the death penalty , which is quite unusual for a conservative US politician. In 2006 it became known that Coleman had wording in the English language Wikipedia changed in his favor about IP addresses of the Senate . This met with criticism in the mass media and within Wikipedia.

In 2008 he fought a bitter election campaign with the democratic challenger Al Franken . After Coleman was still ahead with 215 votes in the first counting of the ballot papers, after the necessary recounting, Al Franken was declared the election winner by a narrow margin. Since, in Coleman's opinion, there had been irregularities in the counting of the ballot papers, he appealed. When the Minnesota Supreme Court confirmed on June 30, 2009 that Franken had received the most votes, Coleman admitted his defeat and congratulated Franken on the victory.

Web links

Commons : Norman Coleman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ news.minnesota.publicradio.org, accessed November 8, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Coleman, Norm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norman Bertram Coleman Jr .; standard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City