• Office Sought: Representative, Ohio (10)
• Birth Date: Oct. 8, 1946
• Occupation: Former Cleveland Mayor, Former College Professor
• Spouse: Elizabeth Kucinich
• Religion: Catholic
• Web site: http://www.kucinichforcongress.us

Education

• Case Western Reserve University, BA
• Case Western Reserve University, MA

Offices and positions held

• Democratic presidential candidate, 2004
• Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1997-present
• Senator, Ohio State Senate, 1994-1996
• Cleveland Mayor, 1977-1979
• Cleveland City Council, 1970-1975, 1981-1982
• Clerk, Cleveland Municipal Courts, 1976-1977

Dennis J. Kucinich was born in Cleveland in 1946 and still lives there. He put himself through school, working as a copyreader at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer and The Wall Street Journal, and as a surgical technician at the former St. Alexis Hospital.

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in speech communication from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Kucinich served on the Cleveland City Council, 1970-75 and 1983-85. He served as clerk of the Cleveland Municipal Court, 1975-77. He was mayor of Cleveland, 1977-79, and served in the state Senate, 1994-1997.

Kucinich also has worked as a radio talk show host, a lecturer, a media consultant and a television reporter.

He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996.

He sought the Democratic nomination for president in the 2004 race, winning only 60 delegates. He freed them the week of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, before Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry received the party's nomination.

Kucinich, who is twice divorced, has one daughter. He married his third wife, Elizabeth Harper, in August 2005. Harper is a British citizen who works for a monetary-policy think tank in Chicago.