Timothy James Pawlenty is an American attorney,businessman,and politician who served from 2003 to 2011 as the 39th governor of Minnesota. A member of the Republican Party,Pawlenty served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003,and as House Majority Leader from 1999 to 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2012 presidential election.
The 2006 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 7,2006. Incumbent Tim Pawlenty was endorsed by the state Republican convention on June 2,2006,while the state Democratic–Farmer–Labor convention endorsed Mike Hatch on June 10,2006. The party primaries took place on September 12,2006,with Hatch defeating DFL challengers Becky Lourey and Ole Savior and incumbent Pawlenty defeating Sue Jeffers. In the November 7 general election,Pawlenty received a plurality of the votes,defeating Hatch by a margin of 1%. As a result,this election was the closest race of the 2006 gubernatorial election cycle.
Dean Elton Johnson is a former Minnesota politician and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. He is a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives,and a former member,majority leader and minority leader of the Minnesota Senate.
Martin John "Marty" Seifert is a former Republican Minority Leader and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He represented District 21A,a predominantly rural district in southwestern Minnesota that includes portions of Lyon,Redwood and Yellow Medicine counties,and the cities of Marshall and Redwood Falls. In 2010 and 2014,he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Governor of Minnesota.
Melissa Hortman is an American politician and the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),Hortman represents District 34B in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area,which includes the cities of Brooklyn Park,Champlin and Coon Rapids and parts of Anoka and Hennepin Counties.
Mark Douglas Olson was an American politician who served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from district 16B,first elected in 1992. After his re-election in 2006,Olson was arrested and subsequently convicted of domestic assault. Olson left the legislature 2009 after failing to win a special election for a vacant seat in the Minnesota Senate.
The eighty-second Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 3,2001. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate and the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were elected during the General Election on November 7,2000.
Lawrence "Larry" J. Pogemiller is an American politician from Minnesota,and the Commissioner of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party,he represented northeast Minneapolis districts in the Minnesota Legislature from 1981 to 2011,and served as the Senate's 9th majority leader from 2007 to 2011. As majority leader,he was chair of the Senate Rules Committee and its subcommittees,and also served on the Senate Tax Committee.
The eighty-fifth Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 3,2007. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate and the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were all elected during the General Election on November 7,2006.
Steve Drazkowski is an American politician serving as a member of the Minnesota Senate from District 20,representing all of Wabasha County,large parts of Olmsted County,Goodhue County,and Winona County,and a smaller part of Dakota County. He previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Phil Carruthers is an American judge and former Minnesota politician and former member and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He is also the former director of the Civil Division at the Ramsey County Attorney's Office. On September 14,2011,Governor Mark Dayton appointed Carruthers as a judge to the Minnesota Fourth District Court.
The 2010 Minnesota gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2010,to elect the 40th Governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota for a four-year term to begin in January 2011. The general election was contested by the major party candidates State Representative Tom Emmer (R–Delano),former U.S. Senator Mark Dayton (DFL),and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner. After a very close race,Dayton was elected governor. Emmer would be elected to the United States House of Representatives four years later.
Michelle Louise Helene Fischbach is an American attorney and politician who is the U.S. representative from Minnesota's 7th congressional district. The district,which is very rural,is Minnesota's largest by area and includes most of the western part of the state. A Republican,Fischbach served as the 49th lieutenant governor of Minnesota from 2018 until 2019. As of 2024,she is the last Republican to have held statewide office in Minnesota.
David W. Hann is an American politician and a former minority leader of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican,he represented District 48,which consisted of the cities of Eden Prairie and Minnetonka,from 2003-2017. He is currently the chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota.
Kurt Zellers is an American politician who served as speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013 and minority leader from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota,he represented the 34B district in Hennepin County. He was a candidate in the 2014 Minnesota gubernatorial election,losing in the Republican primary.
Laura Brod is an entrepreneur and former politician having been an elected at-large member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents,and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented District 25A,which includes portions of Le Sueur,Scott and Sibley counties in the south central part of the state.
John Sterling Howe is an American politician and former Republican member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 28,which included portions of Goodhue,Wabasha,and Winona counties in southeastern Minnesota.
The eighty-first Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 5,1999. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate were elected during the general election of November 5,1996,and the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were elected during the general election of November 3,1998.
The seventy-ninth Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 3,1995. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate were elected during the general election of November 3,1992,and the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were elected during the general election of November 8,1994.
The 2018 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 6,to elect the 41st Governor of Minnesota as incumbent Democratic (DFL) Governor Mark Dayton chose not to run for re-election for a third term. The Democratic nominee was U.S. Representative Tim Walz from Minnesota's 1st congressional district while the Republican Party nominated Hennepin County commissioner Jeff Johnson for a second consecutive time. The Independence Party of Minnesota did not field a candidate for the first time since 1994. Going into the election polls showed Walz ahead;the race was characterized as lean or likely DFL.
