11 Celebrities Who Ran for Office and Won

11 Celebrities Who Ran for Office and Won

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Jesse “The Body” Ventura

After the former professional wrestler won the governorship of Minnesota in 1998 as a Reform Party candidate, former CBS Evening anchor Dan Rather said, “The people of Washington could not be more surprised if Fidel Castro came loping across the Midwestern prairie on the back of a hippopotamus.” Ventura only served one term. 

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