Dave Kleis is a 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...

 politician, and the mayor

Mayor

In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

 of St. Cloud, Minnesota

St. Cloud, Minnesota

St. Cloud is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state's central region. The population was 65,842 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stearns County...

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Kleis served in the Minnesota State Senate from 1995 to 2005. In 2005, he defeated incumbent

Incumbent

The incumbent, in politics, is the existing holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent. For example, in the 2004 United States presidential election, George W...

Mayor John Ellenbecker to win election to his current office. Kleis ran for reelection unopposed in 2008 and won after write-in candidate Ryan Fagan, a local college student, dropped out after what could be considered the shortest political campaign in Minnesota history.