United States congressional delegations from Minnesota

This page displays the historical members of U.S. Congress from Minnesota.

Current members

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Here is the current partisan breakdown of the congressional members from Minnesota.

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Minnesota
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	2	5	7
	Republican Party	0	3	3
TOTALS		2	8	10

U.S. Senate

The current members of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota are:

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Al Franken		U.S. Senate, Minnesota	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Norm Coleman (R)
Amy Klobuchar		U.S. Senate, Minnesota	2007	January 3, 2019	November 2018	Link	Mark Dayton (D)

U.S. House

The current members of the U.S. House from Minnesota are:

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Betty McCollum		District 4	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bruce Vento (D)
Collin Peterson		District 7	1991	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Arlan Stangeland (R)
Erik Paulsen		District 3	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Jim Ramstad (R)
John Kline		District 2	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Mark Kennedy (R)
Keith Ellison		District 5	2007	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Martin Olav Sabo (D)
Michele Bachmann		District 6	2007	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Mark Kennedy (R)
Rick Nolan		District 8	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Chip Cravaack (R)
Tim Walz		District 1	2007	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Gil Gutknecht (R)

Historical members

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Minnesota
Party	Total
Republican	26
Democratic	13
Farmer-Labor	2
Independent	1
Total Senators	42

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	1870-1871	Republican
Ozora P. Stearns	1871-1871	Republican
William Windom	1871-1881	Republican
A. J. Edgerton	1881-1881	Republican
William Windom	1881-1883	Republican
Dwight M. Sabin	1883-1889	Republican
William D. Washburn	1889-1895	Republican
Knute Nelson	1895-1923	Republican
Magnus Johnson	1923-1925	FL
Thomas D. Schall	1925-1935	Republican
Elmer A. Benson	1935-1936	FL
Guy V. Howard	1936-1937	Republican
Ernest Lundeen	1937-1940	FL
Joseph H. Ball	1940-1942	Republican
Arthur E. Nelson	1942-1943	Republican
Joseph H. Ball	1943-1949	Republican
Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.	1949-1964	Democratic
Walter F. Mondale	1964-1976	Democratic
Wendell R. Anderson	1976-1978	Democratic
Rudolph E.	1978-1991	Republican
Paul D. Wellstone	1991-2002	Democratic
Dean Barkley	2002-2003	I
Norm Coleman	2003-2009	Republican
Al Franken	2009-Present	Democratic

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Minnesota.

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Minnesota
Party	Total
Democratic	11
Republican	32
Populist	2
Total Representatives	45

Representatives to the U.S. House in Minnesota in the 1800s

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	1871-1873	Republican
Mark H. Dunnell	1871-1883	Republican
John T. Averill	1873-1875	Republican
Horace B. Strait	1873-1879	Republican
William S. King	1875-1877	Republican
Henry Poehler	1877-1879	Democratic
Jacob H. Stewart	1877-1879	Republican
William D. Washburn	1879-1883	Republican
Horace B. Strait	1881-1883	Republican
William D. Washburn	1883-1885	Republican
Horace B. Strait	1883-1887	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
Mark H. Dunnell	1889-1891	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

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Minnesota
Party	Total
Democratic	25
Republican	63
Farmer-Labor	15
Total Representatives	103

Representatives to the U.S. House in Minnesota in the 1900s

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	Republican
Harold Knutson	1917-1933	Republican
William Leighton Carss	1919-1921	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
William Leighton Carss	1925-1929	Farmer-Labor
Allen J. Furlow	1925-1929	Republican
August H. Andresen	1925-1933	Republican
Godfrey G. Goodwin	1925-1933	Republican
Melvin Maas	1927-1933	Republican
Conrad Selvig	1927-1933	Republican
Victor Christgau	1929-1933	Republican
Paul John Kvale	1929-1933	Farmer-Labor
William I. Nolan	1929-1933	Republican
William Alvin Pittenger	1929-1933	Republican
Henry M. Arens	1933-1935	Farmer-Labor
Ray P. Chase	1933-1935	Republican
Theodore Christianson	1933-1935	Republican
Einar Hoidale	1933-1935	Democratic
Magnus Johnson	1933-1935	Farmer-Labor
Harold Knutson	1933-1935	Republican
Paul John Kvale	1933-1935	Farmer-Labor
Ernest Lundeen	1933-1935	Republican
Francis Shoemaker	1933-1935	Farmer-Labor
Theodore Christianson	1935-1937	Republican
Ernest Lundeen	1935-1937	Republican
William Alvin Pittenger	1935-1937	Republican
Paul John Kvale	1935-1939	Farmer-Labor
Elmer Ryan	1935-1941	Democratic
Rich T. Buckler	1935-1943	Farmer-Labor
Melvin Maas	1935-1945	Republican
Harold Knutson	1935-1949	Republican
August H. Andresen	1935-1958	Republican
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
William Alvin Pittenger	1939-1947	Republican
Herman Carl Andersen	1939-1963	Republican
Richard Pillsbury Gale	1941-1945	Republican
Joseph P. O'Hara	1941-1959	Republican
Harold Hagen	1943-1945	Farmer-Labor
Walter Judd	1943-1963	Republican
William Gallagher	1945-1946	Democratic
Frank Starkey	1945-1947	Democratic
Harold Hagen	1945-1955	Republican
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	1959-1963	Republican
Ancher Nelsen	1959-1974	Republican
Joseph Karth	1959-1977	Democratic
Clark MacGregor	1961-1971	Republican
Alec G. Olson	1963-1967	Democratic
Odin Langen	1963-1971	Republican
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	1981-1983	Republican
Gerry Sikorski	1983-1993	Democratic
Vin Weber	1983-1993	Republican
Tim Penny	1983-1995	Democratic
James M. Ramstad	1991-2009	Republican
Collin Clark Peterson	1991-present	Democratic
Rod Grams	1993-1995	Republican
David Minge	1993-2001	Democratic
Bill Luther	1995-2003	Democratic
Gilbert William Gutknecht	1995-2007	Republican

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Minnesota
Party	Total
Democratic	4
Republican	6
Total Representatives	10

Representatives to the U.S. House in Minnesota in the 2000s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Mark Raymond Kennedy	2001-2003	Republican
Betty C. McCollum	2001-present	Democratic
Mark Raymond Kennedy	2003-2007	Republican
John Paul Kline	2003-present	Republican
Michele Bachmann	2007-present	Republican
Keith Ellison	2007-present	Democratic
Tim Walz	2007-present	Democratic
Erik Paulsen	2009-present	Republican
Chip Cravaack	2011-2013	Republican
Rick Nolan	2013-present	Democratic