List of Presidents of the Minnesota Senate

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The following have served as Presidents of the Minnesota Senate.

From statehood until 1973, the Lieutenant Governor served as president. Not all Lieutenant Governors served at the same time as the Senate was in session. Those who served as President were:

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
William Holcombe	1858	1860	Democratic
Ignatius L. Donnelly	1860	1863	Republican
Charles D. Sherwood	1864	1866	Republican
Thomas H. Armstrong	1866	1870	Republican
William H. Yale	1870	1874	Republican
Alphonso Barto	1874	1876	Republican
James Wakefield	1876	1880	Republican
Charles A. Gilman	1880	1887	Republican
Albert E. Rice	1887	1891	Republican
Gideon S. Ives	1891	1893	Republican
David Marston Clough	1893	1895	Republican
Frank A. Day	1895	1897	Republican
John L. Gibbs	1897	1899	Republican
Lyndon Ambrose Smith	1899	1903	Republican
Ray W. Jones	1903	1907	Republican
Adolph Olson Eberhart	1907	1909	Republican
Edward Everett Smith	1909	1911	Republican
Samuel Y. Gordon	1911	1913	Republican
Joseph A. A. Burnquist	1913	1915	Republican
George H. Sullivan	1916	1917	Republican
Thomas Frankson	1917	1921	Republican
Louis L. Collins	1921	1925	Republican
William I. Nolan	1925	1929	Republican
Charles Edward Adams	1929	1931	Republican
Henry M. Arens	1931	1933	Farmer Labor
Konrad K. Solberg	1933	1935	Farmer Labor
Hjalmar Petersen	1935	1936	Farmer Labor
Gottfrid Lindsten	1937	1939	Farmer Labor
C. Elmer Anderson	1939	1943	Republican
Edward John Thye	1943	1943	Republican
Archie H. Miller	1943	1945	Republican
C. Elmer Anderson	1945	1951	Republican
Ancher Nelsen	1953	1953	Republican
Karl Rolvaag	1955	1963	Democratic Farmer Labor
Alexander M. Keith	1963	1967	Democratic Farmer Labor
James B. Goetz	1967	1971	Republican
Rudy Perpich	1971	1973	Democratic Farmer Labor

Beginning in 1973, the Minnesota Senate began electing its own presidents. Those who have served since 1973 are:

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
Alec G. Olson	1973	1976	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Edward J. Gearty	1977	1981	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
John T. Davies	1981	1983	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Jerome M. Hughes	1983	1987	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Florian Chmielewski	1987	1987	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Jerome M. Hughes	1987	1993	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Allan H. Spear	1993	2001	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Don Samuelson	2001	2003	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
James Metzen	2003	2011	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Michelle Fischbach	2011	2013	Republican
Sandra L. Pappas	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.

References

Minnesota Senate President and President Pro Tempore, 1849-

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