Carl Mario D'Aquila (August 1, 1924 – September 9, 2005) was an American politician. journalist, and advertising agent. D'Aquila was born in

Hibbing, Minnesota Hibbing is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 16,214 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city was built on mining the rich iron ore of the Mesabi Iron Range an ...

and graduated from

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in 1946. He went to Hibbing Community College and to

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. D'Aquila served as an overseas civilian expediter for the

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during

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. He was involved with the advertising and newspaper businesses and was a radio commenter. D'Aquila served in the

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from 1947 to 1950. In 1962, D'Aquila lost the Republican nomination for the office of

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. He served on the Minnesota Metropolitan Airports Commission from 1996 to 2004. D'Aquila died from adrenal cancer at his home in

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. The funeral and burial was in Hibbing, Minnesota.'Iron Range legislator Carl M. D'Aquila dies at 81 (obituary),' Minneapolis Star Tribune )Minnesota), Ben Cohen, September 14, 2005, pg. B8

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