James John Klobuchar (born April 9, 1928) is an American journalist, author, and travel guide. He wrote for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis for three decades and is the father of United States Senator Amy Klobuchar.
Klobuchar was born 9 April 1928 in Ely, Minnesota to Mary and Michael Klobuchar. All of his grandparents were from the region of Carniola in Slovenia.
In 45 years of daily journalism, Jim Klobuchar's commentary and reportage ranged fr...
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James John Klobuchar (born April 9, 1928) is an American journalist, author, and travel guide. He wrote for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis for three decades and is the father of United States Senator Amy Klobuchar.
Klobuchar was born 9 April 1928 in Ely, Minnesota to Mary and Michael Klobuchar. All of his grandparents were from the region of Carniola in Slovenia.
In 45 years of daily journalism, Jim Klobuchar's commentary and reportage ranged from presidential campaigns to a trash collector's ball. He has written from the floor of a tent in the middle of Alaska, from helicopters, from the summit ridge of the Eiger in the Alps and from the edge of a sand trap. He was invited to lunch by royalty and to a fist fight by the late Minnesota Vikings football coach, Norm Van Brocklin. As an energetic builder of communities, he found a way to teach football clinics for women and to lead 500-mile bike rides. In the 1970s he organized a non-denominational church service in a hockey arena for...
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