Minnesota Senate, District 14

Minnesota's 14th State Senate district
Senator	Aric Putnam – St. Cloud

The Minnesota Senate, District 14 is one of 67 Minnesota State Senate districts. It encompasses parts of Benton County, Sherburne County, and Stearns County. The seat has been held by DFLer Aric Putnam of St. Cloud, Minnesota since 2021. ^[1]

List of senators

List of Minnesota State senators from District 14

Session	Image	Senator	Party	Term start	Term end	Residence	Counties represented	Ref.
1st		George Watson	Republican	December 2, 1857	January 7, 1861	Sumner	Faribault and Freeborn counties.	[2]
2nd
3rd		Henry Whitcomb Holley		January 8, 1861	January 6, 1862	Chatfield	Fillmore County.	[3]
4th		Luke Miller		January 7, 1862	January 4, 1869		Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn counties.	[4]
5th							Fillmore county
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th						Rushford
11th		A. Bergen		January 5, 1869	January 1, 1870			[5]
12th		Benjamin D. Sprague	N/A	January 1, 1870	January 2, 1871			[6]
13th		John Q. Farmer	Republican	January 3, 1871	January 1, 1872	Spring Valley		[7]
14th		Amos Coggswell	Democratic	January 2, 1872	January 5, 1874	Mankato	Blue Earth county.	[8]
15th
16th		Morton S. Wilkinson		January 6, 1874	January 7, 1878			[9]
17th
18th
19th
20th		Franklin H. Waite		January 8, 1878	January 6, 1879			[10]
21st		Daniel Buck		January 7, 1879	January 1, 1883			[11]
22nd
23rd		Daniel A. Morrison	Republican	January 2, 1883	January 3, 1887	Rochester	Olmsted county.	[12]
24th
25th		Milton J. Daniels		January 4, 1887	January 5, 1891			[13]
26th
27th		William Worrall Mayo	Democratic	January 6, 1891	January 7, 1895			[14]
28th
29th		Alonzo Thomas Stebbins	Republican	January 8, 1895	January 2, 1899			[15]
30th
31st		Emil Julius Meilicke	Populist	January 3, 1899	January 5, 1903	Windom	Cottonwood and Jackson county.	[16]
32nd
33rd		W. A. Smith	Republican	January 6, 1903	January 6, 1907			[17]
34th
35th		Henry E. Hanson		January 7, 1907	January 2, 1911			[18]
36th
37th		Andrew C. Olson		January 3, 1911	January 4, 1915			[19]
38th
39th		LaForest E. Potter	Nonpartisan	January 5, 1915	January 6, 1919	Springfield	Brown and Redwood counties.	[20]
40th
41st		Frank F. Romberg	Nonpartisan Liberal Caucus	January 7, 1919	January 2, 1939	Sleepy Eye		[21]
42nd
43rd
44th
45th
46th
47th
48th
49th
50th
51st		Alexander Seifert	Nonpartisan	January 3, 1939	January 6, 1947	Springfield		[22]
52nd
53rd
54th
55th		John Matthew Zwach Sr.	Nonpartisan Conservative Caucus	January 7, 1947	January 7, 1963	Walnut Grove		[23]
56th
57th
58th
59th
60th
61st
62nd
63rd		Harold Popp		January 8, 1963	January 2, 1967	Hutchinson	Carver and McLeod counties.	[24]
64th
65th		John A. Metcalf		January 3, 1967	January 1, 1973	Shakopee	Carver, Le Sueur and Scott counties.	[25]
66th
67th
68th		Florian Chmielewski	Nonpartisan Liberal Caucus	January 2, 1973	January 4, 1993	Sturgeon Lake	Carlton, Chisago, Pine, St. Louis counties.	[26]
69th
70th			Democratic-Farmer-Labor
71st
72nd
73rd							Aitkin, Carlton, Kanabec, Pine counties.
74th
75th
76th
77th
78th		Joe Bertram		January 5, 1993	January 9, 1996	Paynesville	Benton, Morrison, Pope and Stearns counties.	[27]
79th
		Vacant [H 1]		January 9, 1996	February 12, 1996
80th		Michelle Fischbach	Republican	February 12, 1996	January 7, 2013			[28]
81st
82nd
83rd							Benton and Stearns counties.
84th
85th
86th
87th
88th		John C. Pederson		January 8, 2013	January 2, 2017	Saint Cloud	Benton, Sherburne and Stearns counties.	[29]
89th
90th		Jerry Relph		January 3, 2017	December 18, 2020			[30]
91st
		Vacant [H 2]		December 18, 2020	January 5, 2021
92nd		Aric Putnam	Democratic-Farmer-Labor	January 5, 2021	Incumbent			[31]
93rd
94th

Notes

1. Joe Bertram resigned after having pled guilty to shoplifting a leather vest and trying to bribe the store owner into not reporting it.
2. Jerry Relph died from COVID-19 after having lost his 2020 re-election bid to Aric Putnam.

References

1. "Elections". electionarchives.lib.umn.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
2. "Watson, George". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
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6. "Sprague, Benjamin D. "B.D., D.B."". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
7. "Farmer, John Quincy "J.Q."". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
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9. "Wilkinson, Morton Smith "M.S."". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
10. "Waite, Franklin H." lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
11. "Buck, Daniel". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
12. "Morrison, Daniel A. "D.A."". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
13. "Daniels, Milton J. "M.J."". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
14. "Mayo, William Worrall "W.W."". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
15. "Stebbins, Alonzo Thomas "A.T."". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
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18. "Hanson, Henry E." lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
19. "Olson, Andrew C." lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
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23. "Zwach, Sr., John Matthew". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
24. "Popp, Harold R." lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
25. "Metcalf, John A." lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
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27. "Bertram, Sr., Joe". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
28. "Fischbach, Michelle L." lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
29. "Pederson, John C." lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
30. "Relph, Jerry". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
31. "Putnam, Aric". lrl.mn.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-19.