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Martin J. Sweeney (born July 2, 1963) is an American politician of the Democratic Party in
Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...
,
Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
. He was elected a member of the Ohio State legislature in 2014. Previously he served as the majority leader of
Cleveland City Council Cleveland City Council is the legislature, legislative branch of Local government in the United States, government for the Cleveland, City of Cleveland, Ohio. Its chambers are located at Cleveland City Hall at 601 Lakeside Avenue, across the str ...
, representing Ward 20. He was elected council president in November 2005, when then-president
Frank G. Jackson Frank George Jackson (born October 4, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 57th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 2006 to 2022. He was first elected on November 8, 2005, unseating incumbent Jane Campbell, and re-elected in 2 ...
was elected mayor of Cleveland. He assumed office as council president on January 2, 2006. Sweeney graduated from Saint Ignatius High School on Cleveland's West Side in 1981. Sweeney's father is retired Cleveland Municipal Court judge Gerald Francis Sweeney. In 2014, Sweeney decided to run for the
Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in ...
. After winning a three-way primary, he won the general election over Republican 62%-38%.


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1963 births Living people Cleveland City Council members Saint Ignatius High School (Cleveland) alumni Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Ohio General Assembly Cuyahoga County Council members {{ohio-politician-stub