Norm Coleman
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United States Senator from Minnesota |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Dean Barkley |
| Succeeded by | Al Franken |
| 52nd Mayor of St. Paul | |
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In office 1994–2002 |
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| Preceded by | James Scheibel |
| Succeeded by | Randy Kelly |
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Norman Bertram Coleman, Jr. August 17, 1949 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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Democratic (Before 1996) Republican (1996–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Laurie Casserly (1981–present) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
Hofstra University Brooklyn Law School University of Iowa |
| Religion | Judaism |
Norman Bertram "Norm" Coleman, Jr., (born August 17, 1949) is an American lobbyist, lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 2003 until 2009. Before that, he was mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1994 to 2002. Previously a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Coleman became a Republican in 1996. Coleman was elected to the Senate in 2002 and served one term, losing his 2008 reelection bid by 312 votes (out of over 3 million cast).
Coleman was born in New York, a son of Norman Bertram Coleman, Sr., and his wife, Beverly (Behrman). His family was Jewish, his paternal grandfather having changed the surname from Goldman to Coleman. He was a graduate of James Madison High School in Brooklyn and Hofstra University on Long Island. New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, attended high school with Coleman; Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are both graduates of the same high school.
During his time at college, Coleman was an active member of the 1960s counterculture and a liberal Democrat. "Carting a bullhorn around campus, he'd regularly lecture students about the immorality of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War." He successfully ran for president of the student senate during his junior year. Under Coleman, the senate refused to ratify the newspaper's editor and her co-editor and cut some funding to the newspaper. But after refusing to swear in the editor on four different occasions, the senate finally backed down. He admitted to smoking marijuana, and he celebrated his 20th birthday at the . He worked as a roadie for Jethro Tull and Ten Years After, amongst others.
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