List of Majority Leaders of the Minnesota Senate

Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate

Incumbent Thomas M. Bakk since January 8, 2013
Inaugural holder	Charles N. Orr
Formation	January 1933

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This is a list of Majority Leaders of the Minnesota Senate. The Majority Leader is the head of the majority party in the Minnesota Senate, and is the most powerful political figure in the body. The current Majority Leader is Sen. Tom Bakk, DFL - Virginia.

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party/Caucus
Charles N. Orr	1933	1949	Conservative
Archie H. Miller	1949	1959	Conservative
John M. Zwach	1959	1967	Conservative
Stanley W. Holmquist	1967	1973	Conservative
Nick Coleman	1973	1981	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Roger Moe	1981	2003	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
John Hottinger	2003	2004	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Dean Johnson	2004	2007	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Larry Pogemiller	2007	2011	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Amy Koch	2011	2011	Republican
David Senjem	2011	2013	Republican
Tom Bakk	2013	present	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Notes on Minnesota political party names

Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: On April 15, 1944 the state Democratic Party and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party merged and created the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). It is affiliated with the national Democratic Party.
Republican Party of Minnesota: From November 15, 1975 to September 23, 1995 the name of the state Republican party was the Independent-Republican party (I-R). The party has always been affiliated with the national Republican Party.

In 1913, Minnesota legislators began to be elected on nonpartisan ballots. Nonpartisanship also was an historical accident that occurred in the 1913 session when a bill to provide for no party elections of judges and city and county officers was amended to include the Legislature in the belief that it would kill the bill. Legislators ran and caucused as "Liberals" or "Conservatives" roughly equivalent in most years to Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Republican, respectively. The law was changed in 1973, in 1976, Senate members again ran with party designation.

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