Lawrence D. Cohen (politician)

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota,^[1] Cohen graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1957.

After graduating from law school, Cohen entered private practice as an attorney at law in Minnesota. He was elected to the Ramsey County, Minnesota Board of Commissioners in 1970 serving two years before being elected mayor of Saint Paul. Succeeded by George Latimer as mayor, Cohen returned to the private practice of law until appointed as a Minnesota state judge by Governor Rudy Perpich in 1988. Judge Cohen retired in 2002. He died on September 11, 2016, of cancer in Saint Paul, Minnesota.^[2][3]

• Senior Judge Lawrence D. Cohen Minnesota Judicial Branch
• "St. Paul Mayors" (PDF). Saint Paul Public Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 28, 2007. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
• "Mayors of St. Paul, Minnesota". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved October 3, 2007.

This article about a mayor in Minnesota is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This biography of a state judge in Minnesota is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e