What is Dennis Kucinich?
[[Image:Dennis Kucinich.jpg|thumb|Representative Dennis Kucinich]] '''Dennis John Kucinich''' (born October 8, 1946) is a [[United States]] [[United States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[Ohio]]. He was a hopeful for [[President of the United States]] in 2008. He is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]. Kucinich was raised in [[Cleveland]], and was elected Mayor of the city in 1977. His tenure as mayor was a hard one, and he lost reelection to [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] challenger [[George Voinovich]] in 1979. Kucinich got back into politics in the 1990s, and became a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] in the 1994 elections. A political progressive, he ran for president twice in 2004 and 2008. In December 2020, Kucinich filled paperwork to run for Mayor of Cleveland in the 2021 election.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/2020/12/dennis-kucinich-files-paperwork-to-raise-money-for-potential-cleveland-mayoral-run-in-2021.html|title=Dennis Kucinich files paperwork to raise money for potential Cleveland mayoral run in 2021|work=[[The Plain Dealer]]|last=Higgs|first=Robert|date=December 4, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kucinich, Dennis}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:2004 United States presidential candidates]] [[Category:Mayors of Cleveland]] [[Category:United States representatives from Ohio]] [[Category:2008 United States presidential candidates]]