Michael O. "Mike" Freeman is a Minnesota attorney and politician in the United States. He is currently the County Attorney for Hennepin County, whose county seat is Minneapolis. He is the son of Orville Freeman, former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Freeman received a B.A. from Rutgers University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.

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  • Michael O. "Mike" Freeman is a Minnesota attorney and politician in the United States. He is currently the County Attorney for Hennepin County, whose county seat is Minneapolis. He is the son of Orville Freeman, former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Freeman received a B.A. from Rutgers University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. Freeman was elected to the Minnesota State Senate as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) candidate from Richfield (a suburb of Minneapolis) in District 40. He served in the State Senate from 1983 to 1991, and served as Majority Whip for his second term (1987 – 1991). He was elected County Attorney for Hennepin County (which includes Minneapolis), serving the first time from 1991 to 1999. Freeman ran twice for Governor of Minnesota. It 1994 he lost the DFL endorsement to John Marty (who was defeated in the general election by Arne Carlson). In 1998 he won the DFL endorsement but lost in the primary election to Skip Humphrey (who lost to Jesse Ventura in the general election). Freeman was elected again to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office in 2006 by a wide margin and is the current incumbent.
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  • Michael O. "Mike" Freeman is a Minnesota attorney and politician in the United States. He is currently the County Attorney for Hennepin County, whose county seat is Minneapolis. He is the son of Orville Freeman, former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Freeman received a B.A. from Rutgers University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.
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  • Michael O. Freeman
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