Charles Stenvig

Who was Charles Stenvig?

Charles A. Stenvig served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota for three two-year terms from 1969 to 1973 and from 1976 to 1978. Stenvig was a police officer with the Minneapolis Police Department before and after his service as mayor. Stenvig was an independent politician who espoused a "law and order" platform amid the social unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the time, Stenvig was compared to other law-and-order mayors such as Sam Yorty in Los Angeles and Frank Rizzo in Philadelphia.