William F. Kunze was a bank

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er who was elected to be mayor

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 of Minneapolis, Minnesota

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, serving as a Republican from 1929 to 1931. Kunze is believed to be one of the first Minnesotans to have ever appeared on television

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. WDGY radio (today known as KFAN

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) had started an experimental mechanical television

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 system using the call sign W9XAT. Kunze reportedly shook hands with WDGY personality Clellan Card

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Clellan Card was a noted on-air personality at the Minnesota station WCCO best-known for the dozen years where he played Axel Torgeson on the local children's show Axel and His Dog. Card was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and spent most of his life in the Twin Cities region, although he attended...

. The exact date is not known for certain, but it probably occurred on or before August 4, 1933.