Senator Norm Coleman served for 17 years in Minnesota's Attorney General's office before becoming mayor of St. Paul in 1993. During his 10-year tenure as mayor, Coleman oversaw an era of rapid change and economic improvement. In 2002, Coleman ran against incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone, who died tragically in a plane crash just eleven days before the election. He defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale to become senator. Senator Coleman is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he chairs the Western Hemisphere subcommittee and also serves on the subcommittees for African Affairs, International Operations and Terrorism, and Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.
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