Herb Bergson

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name = Herb Bergson
caption = Bergson at an anti-poverty rally, 2005
order = 36th Mayor of Duluth
term_start = 2004
term_end = 2008
predecessor = Gary Doty
successor = Don Ness
birth_date = 1956
birth_place = Duluth, Minnesota
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party = Democratic-Farmer-Labor
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Herb Bergson (born 1946) is an American politician from Duluth, Minnesota, and the most recent former mayor of that city. He lost his bid for re-election in a crowded 12-candidate primary in September 2007.

Bergson was elected mayor of Duluth in 2003, taking a two-way race with 57 percent of the vote over local businessman Charlie Bell. He succeeded Gary Doty, who retired from the office after serving three terms. Bergson had also run unsuccessfully for the office in 1999, and went on to win a seat on the Duluth City Council.

Bergson is the only mayor of Duluth to have also served two terms as mayor of Superior, Wisconsin, Duluth's Twin Ports sister city across Lake Superior. He had been a police patrolman when he unseated the incumbent mayor in Superior in the late 1980s. After leaving that office, Bergson returned to active duty and served as a police detective in Superior.

ee also

*List of mayors of Duluth, Minnesota