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Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura is an American politician, Vietnam veteran, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation, he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor with the Reform Party and is the party's only candidate to win a major government office.
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culture · American wrestler, actor and politician (born 1951) · film actor · radio personality · writer · politician · professional wrestler · peace activist · sports commentator · amateur wrestler · radio pundit · governor · also Jesse Ventura, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, James George Janos, Surf Ventura, Ventura
Born 15 July 1951 · Q311161
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2026· 8 entries
“The American Dream lives on in Minnesota as we shocked the world. I”
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“Terry, Tyrel and Jade back in Minneapolis”
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“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people”
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“President Obama inherited something I wouldn”
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Yahoo: Jesse Ventura’s ‘Fake Assassination’ Claim About Donald Trump Draws White House Response
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Yahoo: Jesse Ventura Says The United States Is Getting What It Deserves With Donald Trump
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Hip-Hop Wired: Jesse Ventura Calls Donald Trump A "Draft-Dodging Coward"
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2025· 1 entry
Ventura returned to Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVIII, again dual broadcasting the show with Joe Tessitore
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2024· 1 entry
Ventura returned to Saturday Night's Main Event
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2020· 2 entries
Ventura submitted a letter of interest to the Green Party Presidential Support Committee, the first step to seeking the Green Party's presidential nomination
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But said he would do so only under the Green Party banner
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2018· 1 entry
Ventura testified as an expert witness on the Mongols' behalf in a federal racketeering trial in Santa Ana, California, defending the club against the government's characterization of the Mongols as a criminal enterprise
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2017· 1 entry
Ventura became the host of the show The World According to Jesse on RT America; the series ended in March 2022 when RT programming produced by its production partner Ora TV was suspended after Russia's invasion of Ukrain
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2016· 3 entries
The appeals court vacated and reversed the unjust-enrichment judgment, and vacated and remanded the defamation judgment for a new trial, holding that "We cannot accept Ventura's unjust-enrichment theory, because it enjoy
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As a Libertarian but allowed his self-imposed deadline of May 1 to pass
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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto was released
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2015· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “American Sniper subject Chris Kyle shot dozens of looters after Hurricane Katrina, killed two attempted carjackers, and punched Jesse Ventura in the face.” Mostly False.
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2014· 1 entry
Ventura launched a weekly podcast, We The People, distributed by Adam Carolla's "Carolla Digital", which ran until March 4, 2015
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2013· 3 entries
While the lawsuit was ongoing, Kyle was murdered in an unrelated incident, and Ventura substituted Taya Kyle, Chris Kyle's widow and the executor of his estate, as the defendant
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But as of 2017 it is still shown worldwide on satellite TV
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Ventura announced a new show, Jesse Ventura: Uncensored, which launched on January 27, 2014, and later renamed Off the Grid, and aired until 2016 on Ora TV, an online video on demand network founded by Larry King
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2012· 5 entries
Who Ventura argued was the choice for voters who "really want to rebel
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I could run as a presidential candidate in 2016'
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We'll give them a race they'll never forget
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Ventura revealed that shortly after he arrived in the AWA, Verne Gagne gave him the nickname "the Body"
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“I certainly hope that people don”
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2011· 6 entries
Ventura announced his support for Ron Paul on The Alex Jones Show in the 2012 presidential election as "the only anti-war candidate
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Ventura said at a press conference about the dismissal of his court case against the Transportation Security Administration for what he claimed were illegal searches of air travelers that he was "thinking about" running
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When Piers Morgan of CNN asked Ventura for his official view of the events of 9/11, Ventura said, "My theory of 9/11 is that we certainly—at the best we knew it was going to happen
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Ventura expressed interest in running with Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential election if Paul would run as an independent
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“the only anti-war candidate.”
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“My theory of 9/11 is that we certainly—at the best we knew it was going to happen. They allowed it to happen to further their agenda in the Middle East and go to these wars.”
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2009· 2 entries
When asked by Sean Hannity of Fox News how George W
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The National Archives described Ventura as a "Former Navy SEAL"
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2008· 8 entries
And implied a possible future run for president
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Ventura said he would not run, partly out of concern for his family's privacy
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His Don't Start the Revolution Without Me was released
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“I think we oughta put a wrestler in the White House in 2008!”
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“t Start the Revolution Without Me was released. In it, Ventura describes a hypothetical campaign in which he is an independent candidate for president of the United States in 2008. In an interview with the Associated Press at the time of the book”
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That sets off metal detectors at airport security checkpoints
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Ventura was in the independent comedy Woodshop, starring as high school shop teacher Mr
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“s privacy. Franken won the election by a very narrow margin. In his 1999 autobiography I Ain”
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2006· 1 entry
At a bar in Coronado, California, during a wake for Michael A
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2004· 4 entries
With Ventura by his side, former Maine Governor Angus King endorsed John Kerry for president at the Minnesota state capitol building
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Won the WWE Hall of Fame with _Retired WWE (2004).
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Ventura was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame
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Tyrel also had the honor of inducting his father into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2004, and worked on Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, including as an investigator in the show's third season.
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2003· 3 entries
Has remained politically active and occasionally hinted at running again for political office
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Expressed interest in running for president while accepting an award from the International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Newton, Iowa
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Became a visiting fellow at Harvard University's John F
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2002· 2 entries
“I feel used. I feel violated and duped over the fact that the memorial ceremony turned into a political rally”
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In 2002, Ventura was hospitalized for a severe blood clot in his lungs, the same kind of injury that ended his wrestling career.
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2001).
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Served as a referee at a WWF SummerSlam match in 1999, and published several books during his tenure as governor
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1999· 2 entries
Career landmark: Governor of Minnesota (1999–2003).
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A group of disgruntled citizens petitioned to recall Governor Ventura, alleging, among other things, that "the use of state security personnel to protect the governor on a book promotion tour constituted illegal use of s
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1998· 1 entry
As the Reform Party of Minnesota nominee (he later joined the Independence Party of Minnesota when the Reform Party broke from its association with the Reform Party of the United States of America)
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1994· 1 entry
After he discovered, during his lawsuit against McMahon, that Hogan had told McMahon about Ventura's attempt to form a labor union in 1986 before WrestleMania 2
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1991· 5 entries
“Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.”
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When he was elected mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a position he held until 1995
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“If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.”
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The pilot episode for Tag Team, a television program about two ex-professional wrestlers turned police officers, starred Ventura and Roddy Piper
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“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.”
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1989· 1 entry
Ventura co-hosted the four episodes of the DiC Entertainment children's program Record Breakers: World of Speed along with Gary Apple
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1987· 1 entry
While negotiating his contract as a WWF commentator, Ventura waived his rights to royalties on videotape sales when he was falsely told that only feature performers received such royalties
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1985· 1 entry
Forming a tag-team with Randy Savage and Savage's manager (and real-life wife) Miss Elizabeth
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1980· 1 entry
The duo won the AWA World Tag Team Championship by forfeit when Gagne, half of the tag-team champions along with Mad Dog Vachon, failed to show up for a title defense in Denver
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1975· 1 entry
Ventura made his debut in the Central States territory, before moving to the Pacific Northwest, where he wrestled for promoter Don Owen as Jesse "The Great" Ventura
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1974· 1 entry
Ventura left the bike club to return to the Twin Cities
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1972· 1 entry
While Ventura was on active duty with Underwater Demolition Team 12, the Naval Special Warfare insignia (Seal Trident) became the identifying insignia of all SEAL and UDT personnel
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1970· 1 entry
And was assigned to UDT-12, where he spent three years
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1962· 1 entry
And staffed by UDT personnel, Underwater Demolition Teams saw less combat and took fewer casualties during the Vietnam War
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1951· 2 entries
Born 1951-07-15.
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In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of George William Janos and his wife, Bernice Martha (née Lenz)
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