Nicholas D. "Nick" Coleman (1925–1981) was a Minnesota politician and State Senate majority leader. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he served as a Signalman 2nd Class in the United States Navy. He entered into politics as a volunteer with the 1948 Congressional campaign of Eugene McCarthy, who was then a professor at the College of St. Thomas, now the University of St. Thomas, in Saint Paul, where Coleman was a student. Coleman was Minnesota chair of the 1960 campaign of John F. Kennedy.

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  • Nicholas D. "Nick" Coleman (1925–1981) was a Minnesota politician and State Senate majority leader. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he served as a Signalman 2nd Class in the United States Navy. He entered into politics as a volunteer with the 1948 Congressional campaign of Eugene McCarthy, who was then a professor at the College of St. Thomas, now the University of St. Thomas, in Saint Paul, where Coleman was a student. Coleman was Minnesota chair of the 1960 campaign of John F. Kennedy. He served in the Minnesota Senate from 1963 to 1981 and was a candidate for his party's nomination for governor in 1970. In 1981, he succumbed to leukemia. Coleman was a founder and partner in the advertising agency of Coleman and Christison. Coleman was also the father of Chris Coleman, currently the mayor of St. Paul as well as Minnesota journalist Nick Coleman and the long time Head of Acquisitions at the Minnesota Historical Society Library and 2009 Kay Sexton Award winner, Patrick K. Coleman.
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  • Nicholas D. "Nick" Coleman (1925–1981) was a Minnesota politician and State Senate majority leader. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he served as a Signalman 2nd Class in the United States Navy. He entered into politics as a volunteer with the 1948 Congressional campaign of Eugene McCarthy, who was then a professor at the College of St. Thomas, now the University of St. Thomas, in Saint Paul, where Coleman was a student. Coleman was Minnesota chair of the 1960 campaign of John F. Kennedy.
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