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Charles Stenvig, three-term Minneapolis mayor, dies in Ariz.
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| Last Edited | RMF Feb 23, 2010 09:05pm |
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| Category | Obituary |
| Author | Bob Von Sternberg |
| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Charles Stenvig, an ex-cop who served three colorful terms as mayor of Minneapolis during a tumultuous period, died Monday in Arizona, where he had lived for two decades. He was 82.
Stenvig was a self-described "law and order" mayor who rose through the ranks of the city's police department and first ran for mayor in 1969. He stunned the city's political establishment by defeating the endorsed DFL and Republican candidates and winning 61 percent of the vote.
"He files for office and heads for a vacation in Hawaii -- and while he's gone, the campaign takes off," said Walt Dziedzic, who served with Stenvig in the department and on the City Council during his mayoral term. "They told him to get his butt back here because he was going to win this thing. That's just what he did."
Dziedzic attributed Stenvig's startling success to the fact that "he was ahead of his time on concentrating on the crime issue. Most politicians didn't know how to handle it." |
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