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Richard Michael Nolan (born December 17, 1943) is an American politician and businessman who served as the
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from
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from 2013 to 2019. He previously served as the U.S. representative from
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between 1975 and 1981. He was also a member of the
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from 1969 until 1973 After re-entering politics in 2011, he was nominated to challenge first-term incumbent Republican
Chip Cravaack Raymond John "Chip" Cravaack (born December 29, 1959) is an American educator, former pilot and former politician who was the U.S. representative for northeastern from 2011 to 2013. In his first run for political office, he upset 18-term Democ ...
in the 8th district, defeating him on November 6, 2012. Nolan was re-elected in 2014 and 2016. Nolan's 32-year gap between terms in Congress is the second-longest such break in service (after
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's 34-year gap from 1841–1875) in American political history. On February 9, 2018, Nolan announced he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term. Nolan ran for
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as the running mate of
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in the 2018 gubernatorial election. They were defeated in the August primary by
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and
Peggy Flanagan Peggy Flanagan (born September 22, 1979) is an American Democratic political organizer, activist, and politician serving as the 50th lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Flanagan has been involved in various political campaigns and progressive pol ...
.


Early life and education

Nolan was born in
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, and graduated from Brainerd High School in 1962. His aunt was an attorney and municipal judge, whom Nolan called his "biggest political influence growing up." He attended St. John's University in
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, the following year, and completed his undergraduate studies at the
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, earning his
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in 1966. He was enrolled in the Army ROTC program for 2 years, from fall of 62, to spring of 64. Though he never completed ROTC and never served in the Army, he falsely claimed on two occasions to have previously served in the US Army Reserve. Nolan pursued postgraduate work in public administration and policy formation at the
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, and in education at St. Cloud State University.


Early political career

Early in his career he served as a staff assistant to
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in the
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, and was a teacher of social studies in
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. In 1968, he campaigned for presidential candidate
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. Nolan was elected to the
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in 1968 and served two terms (1969-73), representing House District 53A (
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). His uncle Martin J. McGowan Jr. also served in the Minnesota Legislature. He then ran unsuccessfully for
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seat in the
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in 1972, but was elected in his second run in 1974 to the 94th Congress and reelected to the
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and the 96th. In 1979, he broke with his party in endorsing Senator
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for president over the sitting Democratic President
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. In 2007, he endorsed
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Senator
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in his campaign for
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, and traveled the state of
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campaigning on his behalf.


Business career

Nolan decided not to run for reelection in 1980, and served as president of the U.S. Export Corporation until 1986, and was later appointed to and became president of the Minnesota World Trade Center, a private-public initiative, by then-Democratic Party chairman Governor
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from 1987 to 1994. The ''National Journal'' reported that "his Republican foes criticized his $70,000 salary, which they considered high for a civil servant at the time, and the budget deficits the company ran up." He has also served as chairman of the Mission Township Planning Committee, president and board member of the
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foundation, to which he helped direct federal funding. Nolan is the former owner of Emily Wood Products, a small sawmill and pallet factory in the northern Minnesota community of Emily. His daughter and son-in-law now own and operate the enterprise.


Return to politics


U.S. Congress campaigns

;2012 Nolan announced his candidacy for the
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on July 12, 2011, challenging incumbent
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in
Minnesota's 8th congressional district Minnesota's 8th congressional district covers the northeastern part of Minnesota. It is anchored by Duluth, the state's fourth-largest city. It also includes most of the Mesabi & Vermilion iron ranges, and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in th ...
. He won the Democratic primary in August 2012, defeating
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and Jeff Anderson. The
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spent about $2 million on his campaign, and the liberal House Majority PAC spent another $1.5 million. Nolan defeated Cravaack, 191,976 to 160,520, to return to Congress after a 32-year absence. ;2014 Nolan ran for re-election in 2014. The Democratic primary took place on August 12, 2014 and the general election on November 4, 2014. He was challenged by Republican nominee Stewart Mills III. According to ''
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'', Nolan was a vulnerable Democrat in a competitive congressional district. He was targeted by
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over his support of the
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. He was successful in his close re-election bid, defeating Mills 129,090 to 125,358. ;2016 Nolan faced Mills in a rematch and narrowly defeated him again, by 179,097 votes to 177,088. Nolan greatly outran the top of the Democratic ticket, as Hillary Clinton became the first Democratic presidential nominee to lose the 8th district since before the Great Depression. Republican Donald Trump won the 8th district by a margin of 16%, but despite this, Nolan managed to survive and win re-election.


Issues


Gun policy

Nolan has said that he supports the
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but believes there should be some restrictions on gun ownership. In January 2013, Rick Nolan called the assault weapon ban, which expired in 2004, common sense legislation, saying he didn't need an assault weapon to kill a duck.


Energy and environment

Nolan has voiced opposition to the proposed route of the
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Sandpiper pipeline, saying it poses environmental risks to vulnerable wetlands and drinking water in northern Minnesota. Nolan voted against an amendment requiring a study of the vulnerabilities of the
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pipeline to a terrorist attack and certification that necessary protections have been put in place. Nolan supported increased federal investment in the mining industry, including a "$250 million-a-year research center that would look at newer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly ways of extracting resources from the region." He also advocates speeding up the environmental review process for mining companies.


Economic issues

During a debate in 2012, Nolan said that taxes should be raised and that provisions in the tax code that encourage
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should be eliminated. Nolan also said that the "super-rich" in particular should be targeted for tax increases. Nolan has voiced support for the stimulus spending championed by President Obama. He said, "It did in fact create good jobs in a whole wide range of areas, not the least of which is in the field of transportation." On October 1, 2013, Nolan introduced a bill that would withhold the pay of members of Congress during a government shutdown, in response to the shutdown that had gone into effect that morning. "It's time for Congress to start living in the real world - where you either do your job, or you don't get paid," he said concerning the bill.


Health care

In June 2014, Nolan and Republican
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introduced the Health Care Fairness and Flexibility Act, which would delay an
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fee on every person covered by large self-insured employers and insurance companies. According to the '' Duluth News Tribune'', "The effort marks a rare bit of bipartisan cooperation in Washington when it comes to legislation, especially regarding the president's signature law." Nolan supported the
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and said he would not vote to repeal it. Nolan said, "It ensures that another 30 million people in this country would have health insurance; it provides that nobody can be denied as a result of preconditions; it provides that parents can keep their children insured up to the age of 26." Nolan is a strong supporter of single-payer health care and believes it should be the ultimate goal of the
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.


Foreign policy

Nolan was one of four members of Congress to vote against the 2014 Veterans Affairs appropriations bill. The bill allocates $73.3 billion to veterans programs and military construction projects, "$1.4 billion more than what Congress budgeted last year." In a statement, Nolan said, "I voted against the bill in protest, because it under-funds veterans health and benefit programs, while shoveling billions of new dollars into unnecessary new military construction in places all around the world where American presence and American resources do not belong." In 2014, Nolan urged President Obama to resist further military intervention in both Syria and Iraq. Nolan visited
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along with President Barack Obama in March 2016. It was a return trip for Nolan, who had first been to Cuba in 1977.


Abortion

Nolan voted against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which prohibits abortions after 20 weeks.


Campaign finance

Nolan supports campaign finance reform. In February 2013, Nolan introduced a constitutional amendment designed to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in the ''
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'' case that dealt with the regulation of campaign spending by organizations. In 2015, Nolan joined Democratic U.S. Representatives
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,
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,
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,
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and
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as co-sponsors of legislation calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ''Citizens United'' decision.


Congressional tenure

Nolan sat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and four of its Subcommittees: Highways and Transit; Aviation; Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management; and Water Resources and the Environment. He also serves on the
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and two of its Subcommittees: Conservation, Energy and Forestry, and Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit. Nolan has previously served on the
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and the
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; his previous appointments would have earned him some Committee Seniority on these committees that he had already served on in the 94th,
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and 96th Congresses. Instead, Nolan will now have Committee Seniority on only the
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and be a junior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Nolan had been quoted as saying he would like to serve on "the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, along with the
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Committee, which hears legislation that directly affects the mining, forestry, agriculture and tourism-based economy of the Eighth Congressional District." Nolan and Minnesota Senator
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were the original co-sponsors of legislation called the Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013, a bill that would modernize small aircraft regulations and the
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's Part 23 certification process. Nolan endorsed
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in the 2016 Democratic U.S. presidential primary election. He was a member of the
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, the
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, the
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, and the
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. Nolan's former legislative director, Jim Swiderski, was alleged to have sexually harassed female congressional aides. Nolan's chief of staff, Jodie Torkelson, investigated the situation, found cause, and Swiderski accepted the option of resignation in 2015. In 2016, Swiderski, who now lives in China, was rehired in a remote role as a campaign aide. Nolan once again acceded to the counsel of senior staff and terminated that relationship as well. Rep. Nolan was asked to resign his seat from several male elected officials in his district most notably State Senator Erik Simonson and Duluth City Council President Noah Hobbs


Legislation sponsored

The following is an incomplete list of legislation that Nolan sponsored: * Affordable College Textbook Act (H.R. 3840; 115th Congress)


2018 campaign for lieutenant governor

In 2018,
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declared her candidacy for governor, and selected Nolan as her running mate. In the August primary, Swanson and Nolan were defeated by the ticket of
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and
Peggy Flanagan Peggy Flanagan (born September 22, 1979) is an American Democratic political organizer, activist, and politician serving as the 50th lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Flanagan has been involved in various political campaigns and progressive pol ...
.


Personal life

Nolan was divorced from his first wife and is married to Mary Nolan. He has four children. His daughter, Katherine Nolan Bensen, died on September 15, 2020, at the age of 46, after a five-year battle with
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.


Electoral history

;2016 ;2014 ;2012 ;1978 ;1976 ;1974 ;1972


See also

*
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* List of United States representatives from Minnesota


References


External links

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