Ventura was succeeded in his office on January 6, 2003 by Republican Tim Pawlenty.

The damage was significant enough to warrant a visit from Governor Tim Pawlenty and Congressman Collin Peterson.

Pawlenty was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and raised in nearby South St. Paul.

After settling in the city of Eagan with his wife, Pawlenty was appointed to the city's Planning Commission and was elected to the Eagan City Council at the age of 28.

After winning a narrow Republican primary in 2002, Pawlenty won a three-way election for Governor of Minnesota, and was re-elected in 2006 by a margin of less than one percent.

Pawlenty was rumored to be a contender for both the Republican president and vice president nominations during the 2008 election, and he officially sought the 2012 Republican presidential nomination from May to August 2011.

Pawlenty was not selected as Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate, but served as co-chair of Romney's campaign.

Having moved to Eagan, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis – Saint Paul, Pawlenty was appointed to the city's Planning Commission by Mayor Vic Ellison.

Pawlenty was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1992, winning 49. 1 percent of the vote in District 38B ( suburban Dakota County ).

Pawlenty was elected in 2002 on a platform of balancing the state's budget without raising taxes.

While Pawlenty said he was " confident " in his right to use unallotment, the Minnesota Supreme Court ultimately decided against him, voting 4 to 3 in a decision in May 2010.

After sitting Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty announced that he would not seek re-election in 2010, it was widely anticipated that Coleman would run for governor.

Governor Tim Pawlenty, currently an advocate of the line ( formerly an opponent ), was expected to request a special session, but ended up helping the coordination of other funds to continue development of the line.

The bill was signed on April 11, 2005, by Governor Tim Pawlenty at the site of the Riverdale station in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

She joined the Pawlenty ticket shortly thereafter, and was elected Lieutenant Governor in 2002.

Pawlenty has been criticized by some Minnesotans for budget cuts to programs such as MinnesotaCare to balance the budget ( and controversial moves such as deferring required payments to the state's education and health care funds to later budget biennia to make the budget appear balanced when it was actually not ).

Republican incumbent Tim Pawlenty was re-elected

The compromise bill was then approved by both the full house and senate on May 20, and was signed by Governor Tim Pawlenty on May 24.

On December 2, 2010, in the waning days of the Pawlenty Administration, Sviggum was appointed Commissioner of the Minnesota Management and Budget Office, the department responsible for preparing budget proposals for the governor.

In October 2009, it was reported that Taylor was one of three GOP consultants with presidential experience who were advising Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.

Timothy James " Tim " Pawlenty (; born November 27, 1960 ) is an American Republican politician who served as the 39th Governor of Minnesota ( 2003 – 2011 ).

After Pawlenty himself became governor, he appointed Grunseth's ex-wife, Vicky Tigwell, to the board of the Minneapolis − Saint Paul International Airport, an action which became an ethics and accountability issue in 2003.

A November 1 Saint Cloud Times poll has Hatch at 46 % and Pawlenty at 36 %.

Pawlenty grew up in South St. Paul, where he played ice hockey on his high school's junior varsity squad.

Pawlenty then decided on the U. S. Senate, but he abandoned those plans when Vice President Dick Cheney asked him to step aside and allow former St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman to challenge Senator Paul Wellstone without Republican primary opposition.

In a letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota also protested Olson's being allowed to return to Minnesota.

* Tim Pawlenty, former Governor of Minnesota

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and the state's First Lady took a personal interest in the Rock County group by being present at the send-off and previously hosting a group of Rock County WWII veterans at the Governor's Mansion.

* January 6: Dave Freudenthal takes office as Governor of Wyoming, Janet Napolitano as Governor of Arizona, Jim Doyle as Governor of Wisconsin and Tim Pawlenty as Governor of Minnesota.

Image: Tim Pawlenty official photo. jpg | Tim Pawlenty, the 39th Governor of Minnesota

Intending to become a dentist, Pawlenty enrolled in the University of Minnesota, the only one in his family to go beyond high school.

Pawlenty entered state politics in 1990 as a campaign advisor for Jon Grunseth's losing bid for Minnesota governor.

The first Democrat to serve as Governor in 20 years, Dayton succeeded Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty. On January 5, 2011, Governor Dayton signed two Executive Orders allowing the Minnesota Departments of Commerce and Health to apply for federal health-care grants, and provide $ 1. 2 billion in federal funds toward an Early Option for a statewide Medicaid Opt-In program ; these Executive Orders reversed the previous administration's ban on federal funding for the state's health-care system.

The previous Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty is a Republican.

Penny's unsuccessful 2002 run for governor of Minnesota as the Independence Party candidate received 16 % of the vote, despite polls indicating a dead heat between him, DFL candidate Roger Moe, and Republican candidate Tim Pawlenty less than a month before the election.

* Mary Pawlenty, former District Court Judge and wife of former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty

The poverty level of the tribe, coupled with financial difficulties in state government, led Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty in 2004 – 2005 to propose a joint casino operation to be co-owned by the White Earth, Leech Lake, and Red Lake bands, and the state government.

Yecke then became the Commissioner of Education for the State of Minnesota for Governor Tim Pawlenty ( 2003 – 2004 ).

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.