United States congressional delegations from Minnesota
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Minnesota
| Census Topic | Value |
|---|---|
| Population | 5,706,494 |
| Gender |
50.2% Male 49.8% Female |
| Race |
77.5% White 7% Black 5.2% Asian 1.2% Native American 0.1% Pacific Islander |
| Ethnicity | 6.1% Hispanic |
| Median household income | $84,313 |
| High school graduation rate | 93.7% |
| College graduation rate | 38.2% |
| Upcoming elections |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2022 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
This page displays the current and historical members of U.S. Congress from Minnesota.
Here is the current partisan breakdown of the congressional members from Minnesota.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Minnesota | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Republican | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 8 | 10 |
Current members
U.S. Senate
- See also: Classes of United States Senators
- See also: Classes of United States Senators
The current members of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota are:
| Office | Name | Party | Date assumed office | Date term ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Senate Minnesota | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | January 3, 2007 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. Senate Minnesota | Tina Smith | Democratic | January 3, 2018 | January 3, 2027 |
U.S. House
The current members of the U.S. House from Minnesota are:
| Office | Name | Party | Date assumed office | Date term ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. House Minnesota District 1 | Brad Finstad | Republican | August 12, 2022 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. House Minnesota District 2 | Angie Craig | Democratic | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. House Minnesota District 3 | Dean Phillips | Democratic | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. House Minnesota District 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | January 3, 2001 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. House Minnesota District 5 | Ilhan Omar | Democratic | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. House Minnesota District 6 | Tom Emmer | Republican | January 3, 2015 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. House Minnesota District 7 | Michelle Fischbach | Republican | January 3, 2021 | January 3, 2025 |
| U.S. House Minnesota District 8 | Pete Stauber | Republican | January 3, 2019 | January 3, 2025 |
Historical members
U.S. Senate
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.
| Historical Representation to the U.S. Senate by Party from Minnesota | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Republican | 23 | |||
| Democratic | 14 | |||
| Farmer-Labor | 3 | |||
| Independent | 1 | |||
| Class 1 Senators from Minnesota | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senator | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| Henry M. Rice | 1858-1863 | Democratic | ||||||
| Alexander Ramsey | 1863-1875 | Republican | ||||||
| Samuel J. R. McMillan | 1875-1887 | Republican | ||||||
| Cushman K. Davis | 1887-1900 | Republican | ||||||
| Charles A. Towne | 1900-1901 | Democratic | ||||||
| Moses E. Clapp | 1901-1917 | Republican | ||||||
| Frank B. Kellogg | 1917-1923 | Republican | ||||||
| Henrik Shipstead | 1923-1947 | Republican | ||||||
| Edward J. Thye | 1947-1959 | Republican | ||||||
| Eugene J. McCarthy | 1959-1971 | Democratic | ||||||
| Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. | 1971-1978 | Democratic | ||||||
| Muriel B. Humphrey | 1978-1978 | Democratic | ||||||
| David F. Durenberger | 1978-1995 | Republican | ||||||
| Rod Grams | 1995-2001 | Republican | ||||||
| Mark Dayton | 2001-2007 | Democratic | ||||||
| Amy Klobuchar | 2007-Present | Democratic | ||||||
| Class 2 Senators from Minnesota | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senator | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| James Shields | 1858-1859 | Democratic | ||||||
| Morton S. Wilkinson | 1859-1865 | Republican | ||||||
| Daniel S. Norton | 1865-1870 | Republican | ||||||
| William Windom | 1870-1883 | Republican | ||||||
| Ozora P. Stearns | 1871-1871 | Republican | ||||||
| A. J. Edgerton | 1881-1881 | Republican | ||||||
| Dwight M. Sabin | 1883-1889 | Republican | ||||||
| William D. Washburn | 1889-1895 | Republican | ||||||
| Knute Nelson | 1895-1923 | Republican | ||||||
| Magnus Johnson | 1923-1925 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Thomas D. Schall | 1925-1935 | Republican | ||||||
| Elmer A. Benson | 1935-1936 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Guy V. Howard | 1936-1937 | Republican | ||||||
| Ernest Lundeen | 1937-1940 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Joseph H. Ball | 1940-1942 and 1943-1949 | Republican | ||||||
| Arthur E. Nelson | 1942-1943 | Republican | ||||||
| Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. | 1949-1964 | Democratic | ||||||
| Walter F. Mondale | 1964-1976 | Democratic | ||||||
| Wendell R. Anderson | 1976-1978 | Democratic | ||||||
| Rudy Boschwitz | 1978-1991 | Republican | ||||||
| Paul D. Wellstone | 1991-2002 | Democratic | ||||||
| Dean Barkley | 2002-2003 | Independent | ||||||
| Norm Coleman | 2003-2009 | Republican | ||||||
| Al Franken | 2009-2018 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tina Smith | 2018 - Present | Democratic | ||||||
U.S. House
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Minnesota.
2000s
| Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 2000s from Minnesota | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 7 | |||
| Republican | 11 | |||
| Total Representatives | 18 | |||
| Representatives to the U.S. House from Minnesota | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representative | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| Mark Raymond Kennedy | 2001-2007 | Republican | ||||||
| Betty C. McCollum | 2001-present | Democratic | ||||||
| John Kline | 2003-2017 | Republican | ||||||
| Michele Bachmann | 2007-2015 | Republican | ||||||
| Keith Ellison | 2007-2019 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tim Walz | 2007-2019 | Democratic | ||||||
| Erik Paulsen | 2009-2019 | Republican | ||||||
| Chip Cravaack | 2011-2013 | Republican | ||||||
| Rick Nolan | 2013-2019 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tom Emmer | 2015-present | Republican | ||||||
| Jason Lewis | 2017-2019 | Republican | ||||||
| Angie Craig | 2019-present | Democratic | ||||||
| Pete Stauber | 2019-present | Republican | ||||||
| Jim Hagedorn | 2019-2022 | Republican | ||||||
| Ilhan Omar | 2019-present | Democratic | ||||||
| Dean Phillips | 2019-present | Democratic | ||||||
| Michelle Fischbach | 2021-Present | Republican | ||||||
| Brad Finstad | 2022-present | Republican | ||||||
1900s
| Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1900s from Minnesota | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 25 | |||
| Republican | 51 | |||
| Farmer-Labor | 11 | |||
| Multiple party affiliations | 1 | |||
| Total Representatives | 88 | |||
| Representatives to the U.S. House from Minnesota | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representative | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| John Lind | 1903-1905 | Democratic | ||||||
| Clarence Buckman | 1903-1907 | Republican | ||||||
| James Bede | 1903-1909 | Republican | ||||||
| Halvor Steenerson | 1903-1923 | Republican | ||||||
| Andrew Volstead | 1903-1923 | Republican | ||||||
| Charles Russell Davis | 1903-1925 | Republican | ||||||
| Loren Fletcher | 1905-1907 | Republican | ||||||
| Winfield Scott Hammond | 1907-1905 | Democratic | ||||||
| Frank Nye | 1907-1913 | Republican | ||||||
| Charles August Lindbergh | 1907-1917 | Republican | ||||||
| Clarence B. Miller | 1909-1919 | Republican | ||||||
| Sydney Anderson | 1911-1925 | Republican | ||||||
| James Manahan | 1913-1915 | Republican | ||||||
| George Ross Smith | 1913-1917 | Republican | ||||||
| Carl Van Dyke | 1915-1919 | Democratic | ||||||
| Franklin Ellsworth | 1915-1921 | Republican | ||||||
| Thomas D. Schall | 1915-1925 | Republican | ||||||
| Ernest Lundeen | 1917-1919 and 1933-1937 | Republican | ||||||
| Harold Knutson | 1917-1949 | Republican | ||||||
| William Leighton Carss | 1919-1921 and 1925-1929 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Oscar Keller | 1919-1927 | Republican | ||||||
| Walter Newton | 1919-1929 | Republican | ||||||
| Oscar Larson | 1921-1925 | Republican | ||||||
| Frank Clague | 1921-1933 | Republican | ||||||
| Knud Wefald | 1923-1927 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Ole J. Kvale | 1923-1929 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Allen J. Furlow | 1925-1929 | Republican | ||||||
| August H. Andresen | 1925-1933 and 1935-1958 | Republican | ||||||
| Godfrey G. Goodwin | 1925-1933 | Republican | ||||||
| Melvin Maas | 1927-1933 and 1935-1945 | Republican | ||||||
| Conrad Selvig | 1927-1933 | Republican | ||||||
| Victor Christgau | 1929-1933 | Republican | ||||||
| Paul John Kvale | 1929-1939 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| William I. Nolan | 1929-1933 | Republican | ||||||
| William Alvin Pittenger | 1929-1933; 1935-1937; 1939-1947 | Republican | ||||||
| Henry M. Arens | 1933-1935 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Ray P. Chase | 1933-1935 | Republican | ||||||
| Theodore Christianson | 1933-1937 | Republican | ||||||
| Einar Hoidale | 1933-1935 | Democratic | ||||||
| Magnus Johnson | 1933-1935 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Francis Shoemaker | 1933-1935 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Elmer Ryan | 1935-1941 | Democratic | ||||||
| Rich T. Buckler | 1935-1943 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| John Bernard | 1937-1939 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Dewey Johnson | 1937-1939 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| Henry Teigan | 1937-1939 | Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| John G. Alexander | 1939-1941 | Republican | ||||||
| Oscar Youngdahl | 1939-1943 | Republican | ||||||
| Herman Carl Andersen | 1939-1963 | Republican | ||||||
| Richard Pillsbury Gale | 1941-1945 | Republican | ||||||
| Joseph P. O'Hara | 1941-1959 | Republican | ||||||
| Harold Hagen | 1943-1945 and 1945-1955 | Farmer-Labor; Republican | ||||||
| Walter Judd | 1943-1963 | Republican | ||||||
| William Gallagher | 1945-1946 | Democratic | ||||||
| Frank Starkey | 1945-1947 | Democratic | ||||||
| James Mevitt | 1947-1949 | Democratic | ||||||
| George MacKinnon | 1947-1949 | Republican | ||||||
| John Blatnik | 1947-1975 | Democratic | ||||||
| Eugene McCarthy | 1949-1959 | Democratic | ||||||
| Roy Wier | 1949-1961 | Democratic | ||||||
| Fred Marshall | 1949-1963 | Democratic | ||||||
| Coya Knutson | 1955-1959 | Democratic | ||||||
| Al Quie | 1958-1979 | Republican | ||||||
| Odin Langen | 1959-1971 | Republican | ||||||
| Ancher Nelsen | 1959-1974 | Republican | ||||||
| Joseph Karth | 1959-1977 | Democratic | ||||||
| Clark MacGregor | 1961-1971 | Republican | ||||||
| Alec G. Olson | 1963-1967 | Democratic | ||||||
| Edward D. Fraser | 1963-1979 | Republican | ||||||
| John M. Zwach | 1967-1975 | Republican | ||||||
| Robert Bergland | 1971-1977 | Democratic | ||||||
| Bill Frenzel | 1971-1991 | Republican | ||||||
| Richard Nolan | 1975-1981 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tom Hagedorn | 1975-1983 | Republican | ||||||
| James Louis Oberstar | 1975-2011 | Democratic | ||||||
| Arlan Stangeland | 1977-1991 | Republican | ||||||
| Bruce Vento | 1977-2000 | Democratic | ||||||
| Arlen Erdahl | 1979-1983 | Republican | ||||||
| Martin Olav Sabo | 1979-2007 | Democratic | ||||||
| Vin Weber | 1981-1993 | Republican | ||||||
| Gerry Sikorski | 1983-1993 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tim Penny | 1983-1995 | Democratic | ||||||
| James M. Ramstad | 1991-2009 | Republican | ||||||
| Collin Clark Peterson | 1991-2021 | Democratic | ||||||
| Rod Grams | 1993-1995 | Republican | ||||||
| David Minge | 1993-2001 | Democratic | ||||||
| Bill Luther | 1995-2003 | Democratic | ||||||
| Gilbert William Gutknecht | 1995-2007 | Republican | ||||||
1800s
| Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1800s from Minnesota | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 11 | |||
| Republican | 27 | |||
| Populist | 2 | |||
| Total Representatives | 40 | |||
| Representatives to the U.S. House from Minnesota | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representative | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| Donald Michael Cavanaugh | 1858-1859 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Wallace Phelps | 1858-1859 | Democratic | ||||||
| Cyrus Aldrich | 1859-1863 | Republican | ||||||
| William Windom | 1859-1869 | Republican | ||||||
| Ignatius Loyola Donnelly | 1863-1869 | Republican | ||||||
| Eugene McLanahan Wilson | 1869-1871 | Democratic | ||||||
| Morton S. Wilkinson | 1869-1871 | Republican | ||||||
| John T. Averill | 1871-1875 | Republican | ||||||
| Mark H. Dunnell | 1871-1883 and 1889-1891 | Republican | ||||||
| Horace B. Strait | 1873-1879; 1881-1887 | Republican | ||||||
| William S. King | 1875-1877 | Republican | ||||||
| Henry Poehler | 1877-1879 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jacob H. Stewart | 1877-1879 | Republican | ||||||
| William D. Washburn | 1879-1885 | Republican | ||||||
| James Wakefield | 1883-1887 | Republican | ||||||
| Milo White | 1883-1887 | Republican | ||||||
| Knute Nelson | 1883-1889 | Republican | ||||||
| John Gilfillan | 1885-1887 | Republican | ||||||
| John L. MacDonald | 1887-1889 | Democratic | ||||||
| Edmund Rice | 1887-1889 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas Wilson | 1887-1889 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Lind | 1887-1893 | Republican | ||||||
| Solomon Comstock | 1889-1891 | Republican | ||||||
| Darwin Hall | 1889-1891 | Republican | ||||||
| Samuel Snider | 1889-1891 | Republican | ||||||
| James Castle | 1891-1893 | Democratic | ||||||
| Kittel Halvorson | 1891-1893 | Populist | ||||||
| William H. Harries | 1891-1893 | Democratic | ||||||
| Osee M. Hall | 1891-1895 | Democratic | ||||||
| Melvin Baldwin | 1893-1895 | Democratic | ||||||
| Haldor Boen | 1893-1895 | Populist | ||||||
| Andrew Kiefer | 1893-1897 | Republican | ||||||
| Loren Fletcher | 1893-1903 | Republican | ||||||
| James McCleary | 1893-1907 | Republican | ||||||
| James Albertus Tawney | 1893-1911 | Republican | ||||||
| Charles A. Towne | 1895-1897 | Republican | ||||||
| Frank Eddy | 1895-1903 | Republican | ||||||
| Joel Heatwole | 1895-1903 | Republican | ||||||
| Robert P. Morris | 1897-1903 | Republican | ||||||
| Frederick Stevens | 1897-1915 | Republican | ||||||
District map
Footnotes
Senators
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Tina Smith (D)
Representatives
District 1
Brad Finstad (R)
District 2
Angie Craig (D)
District 3
Dean Phillips (D)
District 4
Betty McCollum (D)
District 5
Ilhan Omar (D)
District 6
Tom Emmer (R)
District 7
District 8
Pete Stauber (R)
Democratic Party (6)
Republican Party (4)
