Al Loehr is an American

United States

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 Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 politician

Politician

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. Loehr served as the mayor

Mayor

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 of St. Cloud

St. Cloud

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, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, for two terms from 1971 until 1980 and as Minnesota Commissioner of Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs

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Loehr worked for a railroad in his early life. His father was a stone cutter

Stone carving

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. Loehr enlisted in the United States military during World War II

World War II

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 and served in the Pacific theater, landing in Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

 near the end of the war.

Loehr became the oldest living former mayor of St. Cloud in September 2010 upon the death of his predecessor, Ed Henry

Ed Henry (politician)

Edward L. Henry was an American Democratic politician and academic. Henry was mayor of St. Cloud, Minnesota, for two terms from 1964-71. He later served as the president of several colleges and universities....

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