Stenvig (January 16, 1928 – February 22, 2010) served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota for two two-year terms from 1969 to 1973 and a third term from 1976 to 1978.
He was a police officer with the Minneapolis Police Department before and after serving as mayor.
Stenvig was an independent politician who espoused a "law and order" platform amid the social unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
He was compared to other law-and-order mayors such as Los Angeles's Sam Yorty and Philadelphia's Frank Rizzo.
He is, to date, the last mayor of the city who was not from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.