Norm Coleman

Norm Coleman is the kind of resume I find genuinely compelling. A Brooklyn kid out of a public high school becomes a lawyer, runs Saint Paul as mayor for eight years, then represents Minnesota in the U.S. Senate. The detail I keep returning to is the party switch from the DFL to the Republicans in 1996, which I read less as opportunism than as a politician recalibrating in real time. I tend to trust people who have done both the courtroom grind and the brutal arithmetic of local elections, because that combination breeds a pragmatism you cannot fake.

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Name (English)

Norm Coleman

Name (Japanese)

ノーム・コールマン

Reading

のーむ・こーるまん

Born

August 17, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

politician / lawyer / mayor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

High school

James Madison High School

University

Hofstra University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20Coleman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706661

Tags

• New York
• politician
• lawyer
• mayor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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