Douglas M. Head

Douglas M. Head
Douglas M. Head
25th Attorney General of Minnesota
	In office; January 2, 1967 – January 4, 1971
Governor	Harold LeVander
Preceded by	Robert W. Mattson, Sr.
Succeeded by	Warren Spannaus
Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
	In office; 1961–1964
Personal details
Born	April 14, 1930; Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died	February 2, 2011 (aged 80); Minneapolis, Minnesota
Political party	Republican
Profession	Attorney, Businessman

Douglas Michael Head (April 14, 1930 – February 2, 2011) was an American politician and 25th Attorney General of Minnesota.

Early life and education

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Head graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and an LL.B. from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he graduated in 1956 along with classmate and also future Attorney General Walter Mondale.^[1]

Career

Passing the bar in 1957, he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives and served from 1961 to 1964. He was elected Attorney General in 1966 and assumed office on January 2, 1967, serving until January 4, 1971. To date, he is the last Republican elected Attorney General of Minnesota.

Head was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Minnesota in the 1970 election, losing to the DFL nominee, Wendell Anderson. In 1971, along with former Minnesota Solicitor General Jerome D. Truhn, he co-founded the law firm of Head & Truhn (now Head, Seifert & Vander Weide).

Head died on February 2, 2011, from natural causes at his home in Minneapolis. He was 80 years old.^[2]

References

^ Corrine Charais, Political Action Among Alumni Archived November 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Perspectives, Spring 2007 (page 18).
^ "Doug Head, former state attorney general". Star Tribune. February 4, 2011. Archived from the original on February 11, 2011.

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Party political offices
Preceded by Harold LeVander	Republican nominee for Governor of Minnesota 1970	Succeeded by John Warren Johnson
Legal offices
Preceded by Robert W. Mattson, Sr.	Minnesota Attorney General 1967–1971	Succeeded by Warren Spannaus

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[1] Corrine Charais, Political Action Among Alumni Archived November 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Perspectives, Spring 2007 (page 18).

[2] "Doug Head, former state attorney general". Star Tribune. February 4, 2011. Archived from the original on February 11, 2011.

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