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, he took on 3 January 2011.

Life

Dayton grew up in Minnesota in Long Lake. After visiting the The Blake School, he graduated from Yale University, where he graduated with honors in 1969. In addition, he was a member of the ice hockey team of the University as a goalkeeper and the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon. He then worked in New York City and Boston, before returning to Minnesota.

There he stood as a candidate in 1982 for the U.S. Senate, but was defeated by Republican incumbent David Durenberger. Dayton worked occasionally as a consultant to Senator Walter Mondale. In 1990 he was elected State Auditor and was thus in the period from 1991 to 1995, the head of the Federal Court. He presented himself for the gubernatorial election in 1998, but had already failed in the Democratic primary. Two years later he went to the office of Senators and won the election against the incumbent Rod Grams of the Republican Party. In February 2005, he announced his intention to not compete for re-election, so he resigned from office in January 2007.

In 2009, he announced his candidacy as governor of Minnesota. In the intra-party primaries, he could barely Margaret Anderson Kelliher over, the Speaker of the House from Minnesota, enforce, so he took in the election in November 2010 for the Democrats. The election result was 43.63 % compared to 43.21 % for Dayton of the Republican candidate Tom Emmer extremely scarce out, so that an automatic recount was necessary. When it became clear that this is a decisive lead in Dayton, Emmer conceded his defeat. This Dayton was 3 January 2011 began the succession of Tim Pawlenty as governor of Minnesota.