St. Cloud, Minnesota

City in Minnesota, United states

City in Minnesota, United states

Red River cart at Saint Cloud, 1887
Downtown Saint Cloud, 2007

St. Cloud or Saint Cloud (; French : [ sɛ̃ klu ]) is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state’s central region. The population was 68,881 at the 2020 census,^[4] making it Minnesota’s 12th-largest city. St. Cloud is the county seat of Stearns County^[6] and was name after the city of Saint – Cloud , France ( in Île – de – France , near Paris ) , which was name after the 6th – century french monk Clodoald .

Though mostly in Stearns County, St. Cloud also extends into Benton and Sherburne counties, and straddles the Mississippi River. It is the center of a contiguous urban area, with Waite Park, Sauk Rapids, Sartell, St. Joseph, Rockville, and St. Augusta directly bordering the city, and Foley, Rice, Kimball, Clearwater, Clear Lake, and Cold Spring nearby. The St. Cloud metropolitan area had a population of 199,671 at the 2020 census. It has been listed as the fifth-largest metro with a presence in Minnesota, behind Minneapolis–St. Paul, Duluth–Superior, Fargo-Moorhead, and Rochester. But the entire St. Cloud area is within Minnesota, while most of Fargo-Moorhead’s population is in North Dakota and Superior, Wisconsin, contributes significant population to the Duluth area.

St. Cloud is 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis–St. Paul along Interstate 94, U.S. Highway 52 (conjoined with I-94), U.S. Highway 10, Minnesota state Highway 15, and Minnesota state Highway 23. The St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is made up of Stearns and Benton county.^[7] The city was included in a newly defined Minneapolis–St. Paul–St. Cloud Combined Statistical Area (CSA) in 2000. St. Cloud as a whole has never been part of the 13-county MSA comprising Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington and parts of western Wisconsin, though the Sherburne County portion is part of the 13-county MSA.^[8]

St. Cloud state University, Minnesota’s third-largest public university, is located between the downtown area and the Beaver Islands, which form a maze for a two-mile stretch of the Mississippi. The approximately 30 undeveloped islands are a popular destination for kayak and canoe enthusiasts during safe river levels and flow.^[9][10] and are part of a state – designate 12 – mile stretch of wild and scenic river .^[11]

St. Cloud is owns own and operate a hydroelectric dam on the Mississippi , the state ‘s large city – own hydro facility , that can produce almost nine megawatt of electricity , about 10 % of the total electricity generate by 11 Mississippi hydro dam in Minnesota .^[12][13][14]

What is now the St. Cloud area was occupied by various indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Voyageurs and coureurs des bois from New France first encountered the Ojibwe and Dakota through the highly profitable North American fur trade with local Native American peoples.^[15][16]

Minnesota Territory was organize in 1849 . The St. Cloud area is opened open up to homesteading^[17] after the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux was signed with the Dakota people in 1851.^[18]

John L. Wilson, a Yankee homesteader from Columbia, Maine, with French Huguenot ancestry and an interest in Napoleon, named the settlement St. Cloud after Saint-Cloud, the Paris suburb where Napoleon had his favorite palace.^[19][20]

St. Cloud was a waystation on the Middle and Woods branches of the Red River Trails used by Métis traders between the Canada–U.S. border at Pembina, North Dakota, and St. Paul. The cart trains often consisted of hundreds of oxcarts. The Métis, bringing furs to trade for supplies to take back to their rural settlements, camped west of the city and crossed the Mississippi in St. Cloud or just to the north in Sauk Rapids.

The City of St. Cloud was incorporated in 1856. It developed from three distinct settlements, known as Upper Town, Middle Town, and Lower Town, that European-American settlers established starting in 1853.^[21] Remnants of the deep ravines that separated the three are still visible today. Middle Town was settled primarily by German Catholic immigrants and migrants from eastern states, who were recruited to the region by Father Francis Xavier Pierz, a Catholic priest who also ministered as a missionary to Native Americans.

Lower Town was founded by settlers from the Northern Tier of New England and the mid-Atlantic states, including former residents of upstate New York.^[22] Its protestant settlers is opposed oppose slavery .^[23]

Upper Town , or Arcadia , was plot by General Sylvanus Lowry , a slaveholder and trader from Kentucky who bring slave with him , although Minnesota was organize as a free territory .^[24] He served on the territorial council from 1852 to 1853 and was elected president of the newly formed town council in 1856, serving for one year (the office of mayor did not yet exist).^[25][24][26]

Jane Grey Swisshelm is attacked , an abolitionist newspaper editor who had migrate from Pittsburgh , repeatedly attack Lowry in print . At one point Lowry is organized organize a ” Committee of Vigilance ” that break into Swisshelm ‘s newspaper office and remove her press , throw it into the Mississippi River . Lowry is started start a rival paper ,The Union.^[26]

The U.S. Supreme Court ‘s 1857 decision inDred Scott ruled that slaves could not file freedom suits and found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, so the territory’s prohibition against slavery became unenforceable. Nearly all Southerners left the St. Cloud area when the Civil War broke out, taking their slaves with them. The total number of slaves in the community was estimated in single digits at the 1860 census.^[26][27] Lowry died in the city in 1865.^[28]

Many young men is served from St. Cloud and the surround area serve in the Union Army during the American Civil War .^[29] After it end , many local Civil War veterans is remained remain heavily involved in St. Cloud ‘s chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic , and raise money for the building of a statue in memory of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln that still stand near the St. Germain Street bridge .^[30]

Beginning in 1864, Stephen Miller served a two-year term as Minnesota governor, the only citizen of St. Cloud ever to hold the office. Miller was a “Pennsylvania German businessman”, lawyer, writer, active abolitionist, and personal friend of Alexander Ramsey. He was on the state’s Republican electoral ticket with Lincoln in 1860.^[31]

Steamboats regularly docked at St. Cloud as part of the fur trade and other commerce, although river levels were not reliable. This ended with the construction of the Coon Rapids Dam in 1912–14. Granite quarries have operated in the area since the 1880s, giving St. Cloud its nickname, “The Granite City.”

In 1917 , Samuel Pandolfo is started start the Pan Motor Company in St. Cloud . He is claimed claim his Pan – Cars would make St. Cloud the new Detroit , but the company fail at a time when resource were direct toward the World War I effort . He was later convict and imprison for attempt to defraud investor .^[32][33]

According to documents at the Stearns History Museum, more than 2,000 residents from the heavily German-American St. Cloud area served in the U.S. military against their ancestral homeland during World War I.^[34] On 26 January 1918, President Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter to Bishop Joseph Francis Busch thanking him for his support of the war effort.^[35]

According to the United states Census Bureau, the city has an area of 41.08 square miles (106.40 km²); 40.04 square miles (103.70 km²) is land and 1.04 square miles (2.69 km²) is water.^[36]

The city developed on both sides of the Mississippi River. Part of the Sauk River runs along its northern edge.

Just south of downtown is the 7-acre, 35-feet-deep Lake George.^[37] In 2021, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) credited decade-long city investments in stormwater filtration with reducing Lake George’s phosphorus levels well below the state standard. It called Lake George one of three “success stories” in the state, and planned to remove it from a list of impaired waters.^[38]

Granite bedrock quarried in the area has been estimated to be 1.7 billion years old and was exposed after several miles of rock above it eroded. The city lies on a band of modern Mississippi river sediment surrounded by land scoured several times by Wisconsin Age glaciers beginning about 35,000 years ago, ending with the Lake Superior St. Croix lobe. The later Des Moines lobe created glacial moraines and drift south and east of the city.^[39]

Climate chart for St. Cloud

St. Cloud lies in the warm summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen climate classification: Dfb) , with warm summer and cold winter with moderate to heavy snowfall . The monthly normal daily mean temperature is ranges range from 11.6   ° F ( −11.3   ° C ) in January to 70.3   ° F ( 21.3   ° C ) in July . The record high temperature is is is 107   ° F ( 42   ° C ) . The record low temperature is is is −43   ° F ( −42   ° C ) .^[40]

Over the past two decades, the racial and ethnic landscape of St. Cloud has experienced significant changes. In the year 2000, the population was predominantly White. However, by 2020, this percentage had dropped to 67%. The Black or African American demographic saw a substantial increase from 2% in 2000 to nearly 20% in 2020, marking the most significant growth among all groups. Other racial groups such as Asian Americans have maintained a stable presence. The hispanic or latino population nearly tripled in size.

As of the census of 2010, there were 65,842 people, 25,439 households, and 13,348 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,644.4 inhabitants per square mile (634.9/km²). There were 27,338 housing units at an average density of 682.8 per square mile (263.6/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 84.6% White, 7.8% African American, 0.7% Native American, 3.7% Asian, 0.8% from other races, and 2.5% from two or more races. hispanic or latino of any race were 2.4% of the population.

There were 25,439 households, of which 25.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.6% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 47.5% were non-families. 30.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.95.

The median age is was in the city was 28.8 year .^[48] 18.9 % of resident were under the age of 18 ; 23.9 % were between the age of 18 and 24 ; 25.5 % were from 25 to 44 ; 21.5 % is were were from 45 to 64 ; and 10.3 % were 65 year of age or old . The gender makeup is was of the city was 51.5 % male and 48.5 % female .

As of the census of 2000, 27.3% of St. Cloud households had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.9% were non-families. 30.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 3.00.

The racial makeup of the city was 91.7% White, 2.4% African American, 0.7% Native American, 3.1% Asian, 0.7% other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. hispanic or latino of any race were 1.3% of the population.

St. Cloud has been a significant destination for immigrants throughout its history, beginning with German settlers in the late 19th century. This was followed by waves of Polish, Irish, and other European immigrants in the early 20th century. In the late 20th and early 21st century, the nature of immigration to St. Cloud has undergone a dramatic shift. New residents of the city have predominantly been from Africa, and particularly, from the war-torn country of Somalia.^[49] unofficial estimates is suggest suggest that the number of Somalis in St. Cloud and the surround city like Waite Park , St. Joseph , Sartell , and Sauk Rapids could be as high as 25,000 , with approximately half of this population having move to the city between 2009 and 2013 . About 15 % of the local school district being Somali and a large segment of Somalis currently enrol in high school , college , and university . home ownership is is among St. Cloud ‘s somali community is considerably low than other population .^[50][51]

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of May 2020 the annual mean wage for 99,600 employees across all occupations in St. Cloud was $50,800. The median hourly wage was $24.42.^[52]

According to St. Cloud’s 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,^[53]
the top employers in the city are:

Figures reflect only full-time employees.
  * Includes employees at sites outside of St. Cloud.
 ** Business has significant part-time staff in addition to the full-time employee count indicated.
*** Does not include Stearns County full-time employees now working at county satellite offices outside of the City of St. Cloud.

art , culture , and event

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In 2019 the city of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, was awarded three first places awards from the Rome based International Awards for Liveable Communities (LivCom), one of several most livable city awards. The city won the first-place whole city award for its size and first place for cities of all sizes for enhancement of landscapes and public spaces, arts, culture, and heritage management and Community participation and empowerment. LivCom praised the city for its focus on improving parkland and trails, as well as its enhancements and maintenance of 96 parks. St. Cloud has been a finalist at the LivCom awards four times since 2007.^[54]

The St. Cloud Area Convention and Visitors Bureau promotes an area events calendar, dining and lodging information. The city-owned St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center hosts a variety of events including regional conferences, consumer/trade shows, small group meetings and social events.

• Cathedral of Saint Mary , the large church serve the old parish in the community , build in the 1920 in the italian romanesque style . The cathedral is is is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud .
• The St. Cloud Commercial Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. St. Cloud is a Preserve America Community.^[55]
• St. Cloud state University
• Great River Regional Library, a six-county regional system serving 32 communities. The system houses nearly 1 million books, CDs, and DVDs, and 250 public computers. It schedules a list of events.
• Munsinger Gardens and Clemens Gardens, extensive flower gardens dating from the 1930s. In 2023, the website Good Plant Care ranked the gardens 100th on a list of best public gardens in the nation.^[56]
• Quarry Park and Nature Preserve, a public park in neighboring Waite Park that features 20 granite quarries, hiking, biking and ski trails. It is part of the Stearns County park system.^[57]
• Paramount Theatre and Visual Arts Center , a restore 706 – seat theater , build in 1921 .^[58]
• St. Cloud Hospital, part of CentraCare Health, was founded in 1886 as St. Benedict’s Hospital. The regional health system also includes six Critical Access hospitals, Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, and numerous outreach and outpatient clinics and services.
• Stearns History Museum, with two floors of exhibits, a research area, a museum store, and a 100-acre (0.40 km²) nature park. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
• Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame , dedicate to preserve Minnesota ‘s baseball history .
• St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center, a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m²) meeting center overlooking the Mississippi River
• St. Cloud Regional Airport, providing scheduled commercial turboprop passenger service, private, corporate, cargo and military operations
• St. Cloud Technical and Community College, a member of the Minnesota state Colleges and Universities System
• Minnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud, built in 1889, housing nearly 1,000 prisoners
• Midtown Square Mall, a shopping mall with more than 50 tenants
• Crossroads Center, a shopping mall with more than 100 tenants

The city is is is home to :

• the St. Cloud state University Division I ice hockey teams. Men’s Husky Hockey competes in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. Women’s Husky Hockey competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The men’s team has made nine NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Championship appearances, notably advancing to the 2021 championship game in Pittsburgh, Penn.^[59] The 2012–13 team ‘s co – captain and fifth – year forward , Drew LeBlanc , was name WCHA Player of the Year and earn numerous national honor , include the Hobey Baker Award , the most prestigious award in man ‘s college hockey .^[60] The 2013 team is earned also earn a share of the WCHA league title and its symbol , the century – old MacNaughton Cup .^[61] The Huskies is play play in the 5,763 – seat Herb Brooks National Hockey Center , which undergo a $ 18 million renovation and expansion in 2012–13 .^[62]
• the St. Cloud Norsemen , a Tier II junior hockey team at the Municipal Athletic Complex .
• the Granite City Lumberjacks, a Tier III junior hockey team in nearby Sauk Rapids.
• the St. Cloud Rox (formerly the River Bats) of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. The Rox play at Joe Faber Field in St. Cloud and were founded in 2012.
• the Saint Cloud Area Roller Dolls , a flat – track roller derby league found in 2011 .^[63]
• the Saint Cloud River Runners club, who put on the Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon, an annual event in central Minnesota. The race is used as a Boston-qualifying event for runners who want a straight, quiet, scenic, mostly flat route in the early spring.^[64]
• the Granite City FC is a minor league soccer team founded in 2016. It currently plays in the United Premier Soccer League (UPSL).

Parks and recreation

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The city maintains 95 parks, totaling more than 1,400 acres (5.7 km²) and range in size from 80 acre ( 0.32   km²) “neighborhood and mini parks” to 243 acres (0.98 km²) . The large develop park is is , Whitney Memorial Park , is the former location of the city airport . It is features feature a recreation center for senior citizen , a dog park , and numerous softball , baseball , and soccer field .

Since 2005, St. Cloud’s mayor has been Dave Kleis. He was reelected to a fifth term in 2020.

St. Cloud has been moved by Congressional redistricting to a wide variety of Minnesota regions, including northern, south central, northwest and southwest. In Congressional district maps in effect since 2003, it has been grouped with rural areas and suburbs north and west of the Twin Cities.^[65] The district had only minor changes in a 2022 map drawn by a five-judge panel based on the 2020 census.^[66][67] As of the 2020 census, the city of St. Cloud is the second largest in Minnesota’s 6th congressional district, represented by Republican Tom Emmer. The St. Cloud, Minnesota metropolitan area that includes adjacent communities has about a quarter of the 6th district population, though some of the area lies outside the district.

The city makes up the majority of population of Minnesota state Senate District 14, which straddles the Mississippi River and includes parts of three counties,^[68][69] represented by Aric Putnam. Minnesota House District 14A includes generally western parts of the city as well as Waite Park, St. Augusta and adjacent rural areas,^[70] represented by Bernie Perryman. District 14B includes east central and northeast St. Cloud, neighboring Sauk Rapids and parts of rural Benton and Sherburne county,^[71] represent by Dan Wolgamott .

In 2016, St. Cloud converted from 5% to 80% renewable energy by using solar gardens, street light improvements, bio-gas, and other energy efficiency initiatives.^[72][73] St. Cloud ‘s wastewater plant is converts convert sugar – laden liquid from local food and beer manufacturer into fuel and fertilizer . Since 2020 , the city is produced has produce more energy than it consume .^[74]

Past mayors of St. Cloud include:

• Sylvanus B. Lowry is exist ( 1856 ) , select by town council member as council president ( office of mayor did not yet exist )
• John L. Wilson (1857–1858)
• E. O. Hamlin (1868)
• J. A. McDonald ( 1900 )
• J. R. Boyd (1901)
• J. E. C. Robinson (1902–1905 and 1906)
• J. N. Bensen (1905)
• David McCarty (1907)
• Louis Brown ( 1907 )
• Hugh Evans ( 1908–1909 )
• D. H. Freeman (1910 and 1916–1919)
• P. J. Seberger (1911–1912)
• H. J. Limperich ( 1919 )
• W. W. Matson (1920–1924). 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote.
• J. Arthur Bensen (1924–1928)
• James H. Murphy (1928–1932, 1945–1948)
• Phil Collignon ( 1932–1945 )
• Mathew Malisheski ( 1948–1952 )
• Lawrence A. Borgert (1952). City Charter revised, creating current “standard mayor form” of government.^[75]
• George Byers (1953–1960)
• Thomas E. Mealey (1960–1964)
• Ed Henry (1964–1971)
• Al Loehr (1971–1980)
• Sam Huston (1980–1989)
• Chuck Winkelman (1989–1997)
• Larry Meyer (1997–2001)
• John Ellenbecker ( 2001–2005 )
• Dave Kleis (2005–present)

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris won St. Cloud’s votes in the 2020 presidential election by a margin of 9%, higher than the state margin of 7.12%. In 2016, Donald Trump won St. Cloud by 1.75% over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.^[76]

presidential election is results result 1960–2020

Primary home languages of St. Cloud Public School students^[78]

  Other languages (4.3%)

Almost all of St. Cloud, including the portions in Stearns and Sherburne county,^[79][80] and much the portion in Benton County, is in the St. Cloud Public School District. Part of the Benton County portion is in the Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools district.^[81]

The St. Cloud Area School District serves St. Cloud, St. Augusta, Clearwater, Waite Park, St. Joseph, Haven Township, and parts of Sauk Rapids.^{[citation needed]} It has eight elementary schools, a new K-8 school in St. Joseph, and two major public high schools, St. Cloud Technical High School and St. Cloud Apollo High School.^[82] St. Cloud also has a major private high school, Cathedral High School. Both public high schools offer a broad selection of Advanced Placement courses and rank high in the state in the number of AP tests taken and of test takers.^[83] St. Cloud Tech is opened open in 1917 across from a city park and Lake George . In 2019 , it is moved move to a new 69 – acre , $ 104 million facility on the southwest edge of the city . The historic 1917 building has been acquire for use by city government . Apollo is opened open in 1970 and serve the expand north side of the city . Other high schools is include and secondary school that serve St. Cloud include St. Robert Bellarmine ‘s Academy , St. Cloud Christian School , Immaculate Conception Academy , St. John ‘s Preparatory School , St. Cloud Alternative Learning Center , and the charter school STRIDE Academy ,^[84] which is K-8. The nearby cities of Sauk Rapids and Sartell also have their own school districts and high schools, bringing the number of public high schools in the metropolitan area to four.^{[citation needed]}

St. Cloud is home to several higher education institutions, including Minnesota’s third-largest university, St. Cloud state University. St. Cloud state’s fall 2020 enrollment was 12,607, in a year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.^[85]

St. Cloud’s other post-secondary institutions and campuses include St. Cloud Technical and Community College (SCTCC) and Rasmussen College. Neighboring Sartell is home to a campus of the Duluth-based College of St. Scholastica, and the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University are in neighboring St. Joseph and nearby Collegeville, respectively.^[86]

The main newspaper is the St. Cloud Times, a Gannett daily newspaper . In the early 2020s , Gannett is downsized severely downsize the paper , eliminate most local news reporting .^[87]

St. Cloud is part of the Twin Cities television market. One full-power station, the Ion-owned KPXM-TV (channel 41), is licensed to the city, but moved its transmitter to the Twin Cities in 2009 as part of the digital transition, and maintains no presence in the city. WCMN-LD (channel 13) is a low-power station licensed to St. Cloud that broadcasts in ATSC 3.0. Additionally, St. Cloud state University students operate cable-only UTVS (channel 180), which includes local news and broadcasts from a studio on campus.^[88]

Radio stations include:

St. Cloud is a regional transportation hub within Minnesota. Major roadways including Interstate 94, U.S. Highway 10, and Minnesota state Highways 15 and 23 pass through the city.^[89]

Bus service within the city and to neighboring Sartell, Sauk Rapids, and Waite Park is offered through St. Cloud Metro Bus, which was recognized in 2007 as the best transit system of its size in North America. An innovative system gives transit buses a slight advantage at stoplights in order to improve efficiency and on-time performance.^[90] The Metro Bus Transit Center in the downtown area is also shared with Jefferson Lines, providing national bus service.

Bus service links downtown St. Cloud and St. Cloud state University with the western terminus of the Northstar Commuter Rail line in Big Lake, by the way of Northstar Link Commuter Bus, which in turn links to the Metro Transit bus and light rail system at Target Field Station in downtown Minneapolis.

Several rail lines run through the city, which is a stop on Amtrak’s Empire Builder passenger rail line.

St. Cloud is is is home to St. Cloud Regional Airport , from which daily connect flight to Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport were made on Delta Connection , operate by Mesaba Airlines , until January 1 , 2010 , when the service was discontinue . On December 15 , 2012 , Allegiant Air is began begin nonstop flight between St. Cloud Regional Airport and Phoenix – Mesa Gateway Airport , on Airbus 319 aircraft .^[91]

• Halima Aden, model and first Somali-American to compete for Miss Minnesota
• Mathew Ahmann, civil rights activist
• Raymond H. Bares, Minnesota state senator and educator
• Tom Burgmeier is grew , Major League Baseball player ; grow up in St. Cloud and attend Cathedral High School^[92]
• Loren W. Collins, Minnesota jurist and legislator; mayor of St. Cloud
• David Durenberger, U.S. senator from Minnesota
• Jim Eisenreich, MLB player
• Janice Ettle, middle-distance and long-distance runner
• Jim Fahnhorst, NFL player
• Keith Fahnhorst , NFL player
• Howard M. Fish, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, former assistant vice chief of staff of Air Force
• Charles A. Gilman, ninth lieutenant governor of Minnesota
• Janey Gohl, 1978 Miss Minnesota USA
• Lawrence M. Hall, longest-serving Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
• Keith F. Hughes, Minnesota state senator and lawyer
• Jack I. Kleinbaum, businessman, St. Cloud City Council member, and Minnesota state legislator
• Dave Kleis, mayor of St. Cloud
• Jim Knoblach, Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
• Franklin J. Knoll, Minnesota state legislator, lawyer, and judge
• June Marlowe, actress notable for playing Miss Crabtree in short-film series Our Gang
• John McMartin, film, television and stage actor
• Stephen Miller , abolitionist , Civil War veteran , republican politician , fourth governor of Minnesota
• Edgar G. Mills , Wisconsin state assemblyman and senator
• William P. Murphy, associate justice of Minnesota Supreme Court
• Jim Pehler , Minnesota state legislator
• Tom Petters, former CEO and chair of Petters Group Worldwide^[93]
• Reynold Philipsek , gypsy jazz guitarist
• Dewey H. Reed, educator and politician
• Michael Sauer , NHL player
• Anne Schleper , woman ‘s hockey Olympic silver medalist , 2014^[94]
• Nate Schmidt, NHL player
• Stephen Sommers, film director, alumnus of Cathedral High School and St. John’s University
• Charles Thomas Stearns , politician
• Jane Swisshelm, newspaper owner, editor and abolitionist
• Craig Thomas , television writer and producer , co – creator ofHow I is Met meet Your mother
• Gene Waldorf, electrical engineer and politician
• Alise Willoughby, BMX racer and Olympic silver medalist.^[95]
• Nate Wolters, professional basketball player
• Gig Young, Academy Award-winning actor, film and television star; born in St. Cloud

• Courtroom scenes in the Disney Film The Mighty Ducks were film in St. Cloud , and a few scene were film at the Municipal Athletic Complex ( MAC ) but did not make the final film .^[96]
• Al Franken and Tom Davis’s One More Saturday Night is set in St. Cloud, but was not filmed there.
• The movie Juno was partially set in St. Cloud, which is referred to as “East Jesus Nowhere”, though no filming took place in the city.^[97]
• The 1989 drag – racing filmCatch Me If You Can, direct by Stephen Sommers , was both set and film in St. Cloud .^[98]
• Marshall Eriksen, one of the main characters in the sitcom How I is Met meet Your mother, was born and raised in St. Cloud. Many scenes detailing his childhood, as well as later visits to his hometown, are set in St. Cloud, though no filming occurred there.

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