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Lori Swanson, Lori Swanson 29th Minnesota Attorney General Incumbent Assumed office January 2, 2007 Preceded by Mike Hatch Born December 16, 1966 (1966-12-16) (age 42) Political party Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Profession Attorney Lori Swanson is the Attorney General of the U.S. state of Minnesota. She was elected on November 7, 2006, and took office on January 2, 2007. She succeeded Mike Hatch, who declined to run for reelection as Attorney General in order to run for governor. She became the first woman elected Attorney General of Minnesota. She has worked with former Attorney General Mike Hatch both in the public and private sector. Prior to her election, Swanson served as the deputy attorney general under Mike Hatch's first term as Attorney General, and solicitor general in his second term. Swanson has been a tenacious consumer advocate. She filed several lawsuits against life insurance companies that sold long term annuities with high surrender charges to senior citizens. Some of these lawsuits, profiled on ABC's Dateline, have been resolved with consent orders in which insurers made over $500,000,000 in refund offers to Minnesota seniors. Swanson also drafted and secured passage of legislation to reform the mortgage market in Minnesota. She has filed almost a dozen lawsuits against mortgage companies alleging fraud and deceptive practices. Many of these lawsuits have been resolved with injunctions against the companies. See also: Politics of Minnesota
[edit] Electoral history 2006 Race for Attorney General - General Election Lori Swanson (DFL) 53.24% Jeff Johnson (GOP) 40.72% John James (IP) 4.05% 2006 Race for Attorney General - DFL Primary Lori Swanson 41.75% Bill Luther 20.91% Steve Kelley 37.34%
[edit] References Attorney General of Minnesota Legal offices Preceded by Mike Hatch Minnesota Attorney General 2007 €“ Succeeded by Incumbent v €¢ d €¢ e Attorneys General of Minnesota Berry €¢ Cole €¢ Colvill €¢ Cornell €¢ Wilson €¢ Start €¢ Hahn €¢ Clapp €¢ Childs €¢ Douglas €¢ Donahower €¢ Young €¢ Simpson €¢ Smith €¢ Hilton €¢ Pratt €¢ Youngquist €¢ Benson €¢ Peterson €¢ Ervin €¢ Burnquist €¢ Lord €¢ Mondale €¢ Mattson €¢ Head €¢ Spannaus €¢ Humphrey €¢ Hatch €¢ Swanson v €¢ d €¢ e State Attorneys General in the United States AL: Troy King AK: Talis J. Colberg AZ: Terry Goddard AR: Dustin McDaniel CA: Jerry Brown CO: John Suthers CT: Richard Blumenthal DE: Beau Biden FL: Bill McCollum GA: Thurbert Baker HI: Mark J. Bennett ID: Lawrence Wasden IL: Lisa Madigan IN: Steve Carter IA: Thomas John Miller KS: Stephen Six KY: Jack Conway LA: Buddy Caldwell ME: G. Steven Rowe MD: Doug Gansler MA: Martha Coakley MI: Mike Cox MN: Lori Swanson MS: Jim Hood MO: Jay Nixon MT: Mike McGrath NE: Jon Bruning NV: Catherine Cortez Masto NH: Kelly Ayotte NJ: Anne Milgram NM: Gary King NY: Andrew Cuomo NC: Roy A. Cooper ND: Wayne Stenehjem OH: Nancy H. Rogers OK: Drew Edmondson OR: Hardy Myers PA: Tom Corbett RI: Patrick C. Lynch SC: Henry McMaster SD: Larry Long TN: Robert E. Cooper, Jr. TX: Greg Abbott UT: Mark Shurtleff VT: William Sorrell VA: Bob McDonnell WA: Rob McKenna WV: Darrell McGraw WI: J. B. Van Hollen WY: Bruce Salzburg AS: Afa Ripley, Jr. GU: Alicia Limtiaco NMI: Matt Gregory PR: Roberto Sánchez VI: Vincent Frazer DC: Peter Nickles Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Swanson" Categories: Living people | 1966 births | Minnesota Attorneys General | American women in politics
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