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Nov 30, 2009 5:38 pm US/Central

Former Crow Wing Prosecutor Enters Minn. AG Race

ST. PAUL (AP) ― A former Crow Wing County prosecutor who currently lives abroad plans to move back to Minnesota to run as a Republican for attorney general in 2010.

John "Jack" Graham has already filed campaign paperwork. He said Monday that he is bothered that the attorney general's office "has become the political property of one party."

Democrats have held it for almost four decades, with sitting Attorney General Lori Swanson three years into her first term.

The 69-year-old Graham has run for the job before. He unsuccessfully sought the GOP endorsement in 1998. Graham served as Crow Wing's county attorney in the early 1990s as part of a 42-year legal career.

Graham's bid for the office involves re-establishing residency in Minnesota. He now lives in Quebec.

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