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Minnesota Senate Minority Leader
This is a list of minority leaders of the Minnesota Senate {, class=wikitable , - bgcolor="#cccccc" ! Name !! Took office !! Left office !! Party/Caucus , - , Bolesaw G. Novak, , 1951, , 1955, , Liberal , - , Harold W. Schultz, , 1955, , 1963, , Liberal , - , Paul A. Thuet, , 1963, , 1967, , Liberal , - , Karl F. Grittner, , 1967, , 1971, , Liberal , - , Nick Coleman, , 1971, , 1973, , Liberal , - , Harold G. Krieger, , 1973, , 1975, , Republican , - , Robert O. Ashbach, , 1975, , 1983, , Republican/Independent-Republican , - , James E. Ulland, , 1983, , 1985, , Independent-Republican , - , Glen Taylor, , 1985, , 1987, , Independent-Republican , - , Duane Benson, , 1987, , 1993, , Independent-Republican , - , Dean Johnson, , 1993, , 1995, , Independent-Republican/Republican , - , Dick Day, , 1995, , 2007, , Republican , - , David Senjem, , 2007, , 2011, , Republican , - , Tom Bakk, , 2011, , 2013, , Democratic-Farmer-L ...
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Minnesota Senate
The Minnesota Senate is the upper house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. At 67 members, half as many as the Minnesota House of Representatives, it is the largest upper house of any U.S. state legislature. Floor sessions are held in the west wing of the State Capitol in Saint Paul. Committee hearings, as well as offices for senators and staff, are located north of the State Capitol in the Minnesota Senate Building. Each member of the Minnesota Senate represents approximately 80,000 constituents. History The Minnesota Senate held its first regular session on December 2, 1857. Powers In addition to its legislative powers, certain appointments by the governor are subject to the Senate's advice and consent. As state law provides for hundreds of executive appointments, the vast majority of appointees serve without being confirmed by the Senate; only in rare instances are appointees are rejected by the body. The Senate has rejected only nine executive appointments si ...
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David Senjem
David Howard Senjem ( ; born December 20, 1942) is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. He served as its majority leader from 2011 to 2013. A moderate Republican, Senjem has crossed party lines on many occasions, notably environmental policy and women's issues. He represents District 25, which includes portions of Dodge and Olmsted counties in the southeastern part of the state. Much of the northern half of Rochester lies in his district. In April 2022, Senjem announced that he would not seek reelection to the Minnesota Senate, and later announced that he would instead run for Olmsted County Commissioner for District 2. Early life, education, and career Senjem grew up in Hayfield, Minnesota and attended Hayfield High School. After graduating, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He served on the Rochester City Park Board for five years, then on the Rochester City Council from 1992 to 2002. He is a retired Environmenta ...
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Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now partially cleared, farmed, and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Roughly a third of the state is covered in forests, and it is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" for having over 14,000 bodies of fresh water of at least ten acres. More than 60% of Minnesotans live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", the state's main political, economic, and cultural hub. With a population of about 3.7 million, the Twin Cities is the 16th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the state include Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, Rochester, and ...
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Mark Johnson (Minnesota Politician)
Mark Johnson is an American lawyer, politician, and member of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican, Johnson represents parts of Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Roseau counties in northwestern Minnesota. He previously served as acting majority leader of the Minnesota Senate, and now serves as minority leader. Early life, education, and career Johnson was raised near Mentor, Minnesota. After graduating from Fertile-Beltrami High School, he received a bachelor's degree from Bethel University and a J.D. degree from the University of North Dakota. Johnson owns a legal firm in East Grand Forks, Minnesota and is a partner in his family's concrete business. Minnesota Senate Johnson was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Kar ...
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Melisa Franzen
Melisa López Franzen (née López Aquino, born 1980) is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 49 in the southwest Twin Cities metropolitan area, serving the Minneapolis suburbs of Edina, Eden Prairie, Bloomington, and Minnetonka. Early life, education, and career Franzen was raised in Puerto Rico. She attended the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. She later attended the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 2003 with a Master of Public Policy in economic development, and Hamline University School of Law, graduating in 2006 with a Juris Doctor For eight years, Franzen was an attorney at Target Corporation, where she held various positions in government affairs and community relations. She co-founded and is president of the Minneapolis-based publi ...
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Susan Kent (politician)
Susan Kent (born November 18, 1963) is a Minnesota politician and former minority leader of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 53 in the eastern Twin Cities metropolitan area. Early life, education, and career Kent was born in 1963 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned her bachelor's degree in communication studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Minnesota Senate Kent was first elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2012. In late 2019, it was reported that Kent intended to challenge Minority Leader Tom Bakk for his caucus leadership post. On February 1, 2020, after a private meeting that lasted more than six hours, the caucus elected Kent as its new leader. In September 2021 Susan Kent announced that she would not run for re-election, also choosing to step down as Senate Minority Leader. Personal life Kent met her husband, Chris, a Maplewood native and 3M employee, in Austin, Texas. The couple ...
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David Hann
David W. Hann (born April 16, 1952) is a Minnesota politician and a former List of Minority Leaders of the Minnesota Senate, minority leader of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican Party of Minnesota, Republican, he represented District 48, which consisted of the cities of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie and Minnetonka, Minnesota, Minnetonka, from 2003-2017. He is currently the chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota. Early life, education, and career Hann was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Lincoln High School in Bloomington, Minnesota, then served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in Religion, and took graduate studies in Theology at the University of Chicago. Hann is a business consultant, business process consultant. He used to be the Director of Forecasting and Logistics for E.A. Sween Company, also known as Deli Express, in Eden Prairi ...
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Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now partially cleared, farmed, and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Roughly a third of the state is covered in forests, and it is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" for having over 14,000 bodies of fresh water of at least ten acres. More than 60% of Minnesotans live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", the state's main political, economic, and cultural hub. With a population of about 3.7 million, the Twin Cities is the 16th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas in the state include Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, Rochester, and ...
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Tom Bakk
Thomas M. Bakk ( ; born June 8, 1954) is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. Currently independent and a former member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Bakk represents District 3, which includes portions of Cook, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis counties in the northeastern part of Minnesota. He has served in the Minnesota legislature since 1995 and is a former majority leader and minority leader. Early life, education, and career Bakk was born and raised in Cook, Minnesota, where he graduated from Cook High School in 1972. He received an associate degree from Mesabi Community College and a bachelor's degree in business administration and labor relations from the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is a retired union carpenter and labor official. Political career Minnesota House of Representatives Bakk represented District 6A in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. Minnesota Senate Bakk was first elected to the ...
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Dick Day
Richard Day (born March 9, 1937) in American politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 26, which includes portions of Dodge, Freeborn, Goodhue, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele and Waseca counties in the southeastern part of the state. A Republican, he was first elected in 1990, and was re-elected in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2006. Prior to redistricting in 1992 and 2002, he represented the old districts 30 and 28. Background Day was born on a farm in Rochester, Minnesota, where he graduated from Rochester High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and business administration from Winona State College, now Winona State University. Day currently lives in Owatonna, Minnesota where he has worked in printing sales, franchise sales, Director of Franchise Sales and Development for Century 21, a real estate broker, and an IBM Salesman, from which he is now retired. He served on the Owatonna City Council from 1976 to 19 ...
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