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Norman Bertram Coleman Jr. (born August 17, 1949) is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist. ... Julia Coleman, won election to the state senate seat in 2021.
This election, alongside the concurrent Senate election in New Jersey, was the last U.S. Senate election in which both major party candidates were Jewish. [2] When the initial count was completed on November 18, Franken was trailing Coleman by 215 votes. [3] [4] The close margin triggered a mandatory recount.
Mondale had previously held the seat from 1964 to 1976, resigning to assume the vice presidency. He narrowly lost to Republican Norm Coleman, the former mayor of Saint Paul. The day before the election, Governor Jesse Ventura appointed the 1996 Independence Party candidate, Dean Barkley, to serve the remainder of Wellstone's term. [1]
Senator Coleman has campaigned as an anti-abortion candidate since at least 1993. [25] In 2006, Coleman was given a 0% rating by NARAL Pro-Choice America and a 100% rating by the National Right to Life Committee indicating a consistent anti-abortion voting record. [ 26 ]
The 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota featured first-term Republican incumbent senator Norm Coleman, Democrat Al Franken, a comedian and radio personality, and former U.S. senator Dean Barkley, a member of the Independence Party of Minnesota. A December 2007 poll showed Coleman's approval rating among Minnesota voters at 53%. [84]
Franken was elected to the United States Senate in 2008 as the nominee of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL, an affiliate of the Democratic Party), defeating incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman by 312 votes out of nearly three million cast (a margin of just over 0.01%) in one of the closest elections in the history of ...
On January 6, 2009, Coleman's campaign filed an election contest and on April 13, a three-judge panel dismissed Coleman's Notice of Contest and ruled that Franken had won the election by 312 votes. [7] Coleman's appeal of the panel's decision to the Minnesota Supreme Court was unanimously rejected on June 30, [8] and he conceded the election. [9]
Lost re-election. Jan 3, 2003 – Jan 3, 2009 Republican: Norm Coleman: 26 109th: 16 Amy Klobuchar: DFL: Jan 3, 2007 – present Elected in 2006. 26 110th: 111th: 27 Election disputed. Jan 3, 2009 – Jul 7, 2009 Vacant: Elected in 2008, but was not seated until July 2009. Jul 7, 2009 – Jan 2, 2018 DFL: Al Franken: 27 112th: Re-elected in ...