Mary Anderson (Mayor, Kinney, MN)

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Mary "Polly" (Pavlovich) Anderson (born 06/08/1915, Chisholm, Minnesota; died 10/24/2007, Chisholm, Minnesota). Mary is best remembered as a long-time political figure on the Iron Range. Described as “feisty” and someone who “personified the spirit of the Iron Range,” she worked tirelessly to improve the lives of her neighbors as an active DFLer and the mayor of Kinney, Minn.

She was born on June 8, 1915, to Bude and Mildred (Vukadinovich) Pavlovich in Kinney. After traveling to Alaska and California as a young person, she settled back in her beloved Kinney and opened the well-known Mary’s Bar with her father in 1944. Over the years, Mary’s Bar played host to numerous campaigns and fundraisers for Minnesota Democrats, including such luminaries as Tom Rukavina, Doug Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Paul Wellstone and Rudy Perpich.

No gathering at Mary’s Bar was complete without Mary’s famous potica and sarmas. And as a testament to her boundless energy and giving spirit, she simultaneously had a successful 20-year career as a nurse at the Virginia hospital while running the bar and working as Kinney’s mayor. She spent many years on various boards and commissions working to improve her community, including RAMS, the AEOA and the Range Mayor’s Association. She bid one last farewell to the community she loved so much on July 14, 2007, when she acted as grand marshal for the Kinney parade celebrating the 30th anniversary of Kinney’s unofficial secession from the United States to protest a lack of government services, an event she orchestrated during her tenure as mayor that earned the town a new water system and even a police patrol car donated by frozen food entrepreneur, Jeno Paulucci.

Biography
A fully cited biography of Mary Anderson is available in the following publication, “Republic of Kinney” [ISBN 0979670608 (pbk.); 9780979670602 (pbk.);]. For information about this publication, including ordering, pricing, or availability, please contact: City of Kinney, 206 Main Street, P.O. Box 307, Kinney, MN 55758; ( http://www.kinneyminnesota.com). A library copy of “Republic of Kinney” is also available for InterLibrary Loan through WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org).

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  • Kuzma, Scott (2007). Republic of Kinney. Fargo, ND: Forum Communications Printing. ISBN 0979670608.  (First Edition).
  • Bloomquist, Lee. "Mary Anderson, mayor of 'Republic of Kinney,' dies," Duluth News Tribune, 10/24/2007.
  • "Mary P. Anderson," Hibbing Daily Tribune, 10/27/2007.
  • Hanna, Bill. "Mary Anderson's life is feted in her work, city history," Mesabi Daily News, 10/28/2007.
  • Tyssen, Linda. "Appropriate Farewell: Mary Anderson's Life Celebrated in Serbian Style," Mesabi Daily News, 10/29/2007.
  • Bloomquist, Lee. "Politicians, constituents, friends gather for funeral of Iron Range institution," Duluth News Tribune, 10/30/2007.
  • Cohen, Ben. "Mary Anderson, an Iron Range institution: The longtime Kinney, Minn., mayor knew how to get the attention of the powerful: Secede from the union," Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11/01/2007.

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