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The Minnesota Senate, District 12 is one of 67 Minnesota State Senate districts. It encompasses parts of Big Stone County, Douglas County, Grant County, Pope County, Stearns County, Stevens County, Swift County, Traverse County and Wilkin County. The seat has been held by Republican Torrey Westrom of Elbow Lake, Minnesota since 2013. [1]
| Session | Image | Senator | Party | Term start | Term end | Residence | Counties represented | Ref. |
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| 1st | James Ridpath | N/A | December 2, 1857 | December 6, 1859 | Tepeeota | Wabasha County. | [2] | |
| 2nd |  | John T. Averill | December 7, 1859 | January 7, 1861 | Lake City | [3] | ||
| 3rd | Stiles P. Jones | January 8, 1861 | September 25, 1861 | Rochester | Olmsted County. | [4] | ||
| Vacant | September 26, 1861 | January 6, 1862 | ||||||
| 4th | John V. Daniels | Republican | January 7, 1862 | January 4, 1869 | Rochester | Olmsted and Wabasha counties. | [5] | |
| 5th | N/A | Olmsted County. | ||||||
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| 9th | Republican | |||||||
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| 11th | Joseph A. Leonard | January 5, 1869 | January 2, 1871 | [6] | ||||
| 12th | N/A | |||||||
| 13th | Leonard B. Hodges | January 3, 1871 | January 1, 1872 | Oronoco | [7] | |||
| 14th | Amos Coggswell | January 2, 1872 | January 3, 1876 | Aurora | Steele County. | [8] | ||
| 15th | Democratic | |||||||
| 16th | N/A | |||||||
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| 18th | Louis L. Wheelock | Republican | January 4, 1876 | January 7, 1878 | Owatonna | [9] | ||
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| 20th | Eli W. Morehouse | Democratic | January 8, 1878 | January 6, 1879 | [10] | |||
| 21st | W. W. Wilkins | N/A | January 7, 1879 | January 1, 1883 | Medford | [11] | ||
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| 23rd | Adam C. Hickman | January 2, 1883 | January 3, 1887 | Owatonna | [12] | |||
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| 25th | Charles Schretz Crandell | Republican | January 4, 1887 | January 5, 1891 | [13] | |||
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| 29th | Wesley A. Sperry | January 8, 1895 | January 2, 1899 | [14] | ||||
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| 31st | George D. McArthur | January 3, 1899 | January 5, 1903 | Blue Earth City | Faribault County. | [15] | ||
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| 33rd | Frank E. Putnam | January 6, 1903 | January 4, 1915 | Blue Earth | [16] | |||
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| 39th | John Steffen | Nonpartisan | January 5, 1915 | January 6, 1919 | Troy | Lincoln, Murray and Pipestone counties. | [17] | |
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| 41st | Floyd E. Lindsley | January 7, 1919 | January 1, 1923 | Garvin | [18] | |||
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| 43rd | Louis P. Johnson | January 2, 1923 | January 5, 1931 | Ivanhoe | [19] | |||
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| 47th | John Vincent Webber | January 6, 1931 | October 4, 1946 | Slayton | [20] | |||
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| Vacant | October 5, 1956 | January 6, 1946 | ||||||
| 55th | Hans Pederson | Nonpartisan | January 7, 1947 | January 3, 1954 | Ruthton | [21] | ||
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| 57th | Conservative | |||||||
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| 59th | Joseph Vadheim | January 4, 1955 | January 7, 1963 | Tyler | [22] | |||
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| 63rd | Michael McGuire | Liberal | January 8, 1963 | January 2, 1967 | Montgomery | Le Sueur and Scott counties. | [23] | |
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| 65th | Rollin Glewwe | Conservative | January 3, 1967 | January 1, 1973 | South Saint Paul | Dakota County. | [24] | |
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| 68th | Myrton Wegener | DFL | January 2, 1973 | January 3, 1983 | Bertha | Mille Lacs, Morrison and Todd counties. | [25] | |
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| 73rd | Don Anderson | Independent Republican | January 4, 1983 | January 7, 1991 | Wadena | Douglas, Otter Tail, Todd and Wadena counties. | [26] | |
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| 77th | Dallas Sams | DFL | January 8, 1991 | January 4, 1991 | Staples | [27] | ||
| 78th | Don Samuelson | January 5, 1993 | January 6, 2003 | Brainerd | Cass, Crow Wing and Morrison counties. | [28] | ||
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| 83rd | Paul Koering | Republican | January 7, 2003 | January 3, 2011 | Fort Ripley | Crow Wing and Morrison counties. | [29] | |
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| 87th |  | Paul Gazelka | January 4, 2011 | January 7, 2013 | Brainerd | [30] | ||
| 88th |  | Torrey Westrom | January 8, 2013 | Incumbent | Elbow Lake | Big Stone, Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stearns, Stevens, Swift, Traverse and Wilkin counties. | [1] | |
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| 91st | ||||||||
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