List of Minority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives

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This is a list of Minority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives. The current minority leader is Rep. Kurt Daudt (R-Crown). Daudt was elected minority leader at the start of the 2013 session after the Republicans lost a majority in the 2012 election.

Name Took Office Left Office Party/Caucus
Charles L. Halstead 19451947Liberal
Joseph L Prifrel 19471949Liberal
Edwin J. Chilgren 19491951Liberal
Fred A. Cina 19511955Liberal
John A. Hartle 19551957Conservative
Odin E. S. Langen 19571959Conservative
Lloyd L. Duxbury 19591963Conservative
Fred A. Cina 19631969Liberal
Martin Olav Sabo 19691973Liberal
Aubrey W. Dirlam 19731975Republican
Henry J. Savelkoul 19751979Independent-Republican
None[- 1] 19791980 
Rod Searle 19801981Independent-Republican
Glen Sherwood 19811982Independent-Republican
David M. Jennings 19821985Independent-Republican
Fred Norton 19851987Democratic-Farmer-Labor
William R. Schreiber 19871991Independent-Republican
Terry Dempsey 19911993Independent-Republican
Steve Sviggum 19931999Independent-Republican/Republican
Tom Pugh 19992003Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Matt Entenza 20032006Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Margaret Anderson Kelliher 20062007Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Marty Seifert 20072009Republican
Kurt Zellers 20092011Republican
Paul Thissen 20112013Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Kurt Daudt 20132015Republican
Paul Thissen 2015PresentDemocratic-Farmer-Labor

Notes on Minnesota political party names

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 1974, House members again ran with party designation.

Notes

  1. From 1979 to 1980, the House was evenly divided.

References

Minnesota Legislative Reference Library

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