List of United States representatives from Minnesota

The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Minnesota. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota. The list of names should be complete as of January 3, 2015, but other data may be incomplete.

Current members

Updated January 2017.

• Minnesota's 1st district: Tim Walz (D) (since 2007)
• Minnesota's 2nd district: Jason Lewis (R) (since 2017)
• Minnesota's 3rd district: Erik Paulsen (R) (since 2009)
• Minnesota's 4th district: Betty McCollum (D) (since 2001)
• Minnesota's 5th district: Keith Ellison (D) (since 2007)
• Minnesota's 6th district: Tom Emmer (R) (since 2015)
• Minnesota's 7th district: Collin Peterson (D) (since 1991)
• Minnesota's 8th district: Rick Nolan (D) (since 2013) (also served 1975-1981 in the 6th district)

List of representatives

Representative	Party	District	Years	District home	Electoral history
Cyrus Aldrich	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863	Minneapolis	[data missing]
John G. Alexander	Republican	3rd	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941	[data missing]	Lost renomination.
Herman Carl Andersen	Republican	7th	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1963	[data missing]	Lost as an Independent.
Sydney Anderson	Republican	1st	March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1925	[data missing]	[data missing]
August H. Andresen	Republican	3rd	March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
		1st	January 3, 1935 – January 14, 1958		Died.
Henry M. Arens	Farmer–Labor	At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
John T. Averill	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873	[data missing]	[data missing]
		3rd	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875
Michele Bachmann	Republican	6th	January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2015	Stillwater	[data missing]
Melvin Baldwin	Democratic	6th	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895	[data missing]	[data missing]
James Bede	Republican	8th	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1909	[data missing]	[data missing]
Robert Bergland	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	7th	January 3, 1971 – January 22, 1977	[data missing]	Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
John Bernard	Farmer–Labor	8th	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
John Blatnik	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	8th	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1975	[data missing]	Retired.
Haldor Boen	Populist	7th	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895	[data missing]	[data missing]
Rich T. Buckler	Farmer–Labor	9th	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1943	[data missing]	Retired.
Clarence Buckman	Republican	6th	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907	[data missing]	[data missing]
William Leighton Carss	Farmer–Labor	8th	March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921	[data missing]	[data missing]
			March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1929		[data missing]
James Castle	Democratic	4th	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	[data missing]	[data missing]
James M. Cavanaugh	Democratic	1st	May 11, 1858 – March 3, 1859	Chatfield	[data missing]
Ray P. Chase	Republican	At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	[data missing]	Lost renomination.
Victor Christgau	Republican	1st	March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	[data missing]
Theodore Christianson	Republican	At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	[data missing]	Retired to run for U.S. Senate.
			January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937
Frank Clague	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	Retired.
Solomon Comstock	Republican	5th	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	[data missing]	[data missing]
Chip Cravaack	Republican	8th	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013	Lindstrom	Lost re-election.
Charles Russell Davis	Republican	3rd	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1925	[data missing]	[data missing]
Edward Devitt	Republican	4th	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Ignatius L. Donnelly	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869	St. Paul	[data missing]
Mark H. Dunnell	Republican	1st	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1883	[data missing]	Retired.
			March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891		Lost re-election.
Frank Eddy	Republican	7th	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903	[data missing]	[data missing]
Keith Ellison	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	5th	January 3, 2007 – present	Minneapolis	First elected in 2006.
Franklin Ellsworth	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1921	[data missing]	[data missing]
Arlen Erdahl	Republican	1st	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Tom Emmer	Republican	6th	January 3, 2015 – present	Delano	[data missing]
Loren Fletcher	Republican	5th	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1903	[data missing]	[data missing]
Loren Fletcher	Republican	5th	March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1907	[data missing]	[data missing]
Donald M. Fraser	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	5th	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1979	Minneapolis	Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
Bill Frenzel	Republican	3rd	January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1991	[data missing]	Retired.
Allen J. Furlow	Republican	1st	March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1929	[data missing]	Lost renomination.
Richard Pillsbury Gale	Republican	3rd	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1945	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
William Gallagher	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	3rd	January 3, 1945 – August 13, 1946	[data missing]	Died.
John Gilfillan	Republican	4th	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	[data missing]	[data missing]
Godfrey G. Goodwin	Republican	10th	March 4, 1925 – February 16, 1933	[data missing]	Died.
Rod Grams	Republican	6th	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995	Princeton	Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
Gil Gutknecht	Republican	1st	January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2007	Rochester	Lost general.
Tom Hagedorn	Republican	2nd	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1983	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Harold Hagen	Farmer–Labor	9th	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
	Republican		January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1955
Darwin Hall	Republican	3rd	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	[data missing]	[data missing]
Osee M. Hall	Democratic	3rd	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895	[data missing]	[data missing]
Kittel Halvorson	Populist	5th	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	[data missing]	[data missing]
Winfield Scott Hammond	Democratic	2nd	March 4, 1907 – January 6, 1905	[data missing]	Resigned when elected Governor of Minnesota.
William H. Harries	Democratic	1st	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	[data missing]	[data missing]
Joel Heatwole	Republican	3rd	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903	[data missing]	[data missing]
Einar Hoidale	Democratic	At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	[data missing]	Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
Dewey Johnson	Farmer–Labor	5th	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Magnus Johnson	Farmer–Labor	At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	[data missing]	[data missing]
Walter Judd	Republican	5th	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1963	[data missing]	Lost general.
Joseph Karth	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	4th	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1977	[data missing]	Retired.
Oscar Keller	Republican	4th	July 1, 1919 – March 3, 1927	[data missing]	[data missing]
Mark Kennedy	Republican	2nd	January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2003	Watertown	Retired to run for U.S. Senate.
		6th	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Andrew Kiefer	Republican	4th	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897	[data missing]	[data missing]
William S. King	Republican	3rd	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	[data missing]	[data missing]
John Kline	Republican	2nd	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2017	Lakeville	[data missing]
Coya Knutson	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	9th	January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1959	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Harold Knutson	Republican	6th	March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
		At-large	March 4, 1933 – March 3, 1935
		6th	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1949
Ole J. Kvale	Farmer–Labor	7th	March 4, 1923 – September 11, 1929	[data missing]	Died.
Paul John Kvale	Farmer–Labor	7th	October 16, 1929 – March 4, 1933	[data missing]	First elected to finish his father Ole J. Kvale's seat. [data missing]
		At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935
		7th	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939
Odin Langen	Republican	9th	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
		7th	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1971
Oscar Larson	Republican	8th	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925	[data missing]	[data missing]
Jason Lewis	Republican	2nd	January 3, 2017 – present	Burnsville	Elected in 2016.
John Lind	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1893	[data missing]	[data missing]
	Democratic	5th	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905		[data missing]
Charles August Lindbergh	Republican	6th	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1917	Morrison County	[data missing]
Ernest Lundeen	Republican	5th	March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1919	[data missing]	[data missing]
		At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935		Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
		3rd	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937
Bill Luther	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	6th	January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2003	Fergus Falls	Lost re-election.
Melvin Maas	Republican	4th	March 4, 1927 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	Lost renomination.
			January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1945		Lost re-election.
John L. MacDonald	Democratic	3rd	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889	[data missing]	[data missing]
Clark MacGregor	Republican	3rd	January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1971	[data missing]	Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
George MacKinnon	Republican	3rd	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
James Manahan	Republican	At-large	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915	[data missing]	[data missing]
Fred Marshall	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	6th	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1963	[data missing]	Retired.
Eugene McCarthy	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	4th	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1959	St. Paul	Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
James McCleary	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1907	[data missing]	[data missing]
Betty McCollum	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	4th	January 3, 2001 – present	St. Paul	First elected in 2000.
Clarence B. Miller	Republican	8th	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1919	[data missing]	[data missing]
David Minge	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	2nd	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2001	[data missing]	Lost general.
Robert P. Morris	Republican	6th	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903	[data missing]	[data missing]
Ancher Nelsen	Republican	2nd	January 3, 1959 – December 31, 1974	[data missing]	Retired.
Knute Nelson	Republican	5th	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889	[data missing]	[data missing]
Walter Newton	Republican	5th	March 4, 1919 – June 30, 1929	[data missing]	Resigned to become Secretary to President Herbert Hoover.
Rick Nolan	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	6th	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1981	Crosby	Retired.
		8th	January 3, 2013 - present		Again elected in 2012.
William I. Nolan	Republican	5th	June 17, 1929 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Frank Nye	Republican	5th	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1913	[data missing]	[data missing]
Jim Oberstar	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	8th	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 2011	Chisholm	Lost general.
Joseph P. O'Hara	Republican	2nd	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1959	[data missing]	Retired.
Alec G. Olson	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	6th	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Erik Paulsen	Republican	3rd	January 3, 2009 – present	Eden Prairie	First elected in 2008.
Tim Penny	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	1st	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995	Waseca	Retired.
Collin Peterson	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	7th	January 3, 1991 – present	Detroit Lakes	First elected in 1990.
William Wallace Phelps	Democratic	2nd	May 11, 1858 – March 3, 1859	Red Wing	[data missing]
William Alvin Pittenger	Republican	8th	March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
			January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937		Lost re-election.
			January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1947		Lost re-election.
Henry Poehler	Democratic	2nd	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	[data missing]	[data missing]
Al Quie	Republican	1st	February 18, 1958 – January 3, 1979	Dennison	Retired to run for Governor of Minnesota.
Jim Ramstad	Republican	3rd	January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2009	Wayzata	Retired.
Edmund Rice	Democratic	4th	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889	[data missing]	[data missing]
Elmer Ryan	Democratic	2nd	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Martin Olav Sabo	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	5th	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 2007	[data missing]	Retired.
Thomas D. Schall	Republican	5th	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1925	[data missing]	Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
Conrad Selvig	Republican	9th	March 4, 1927 – March 3, 1933	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Francis Shoemaker	Farmer–Labor	At-large	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	[data missing]	[data missing]
Gerry Sikorski	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	6th	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993	[data missing]	Lost general.
George Ross Smith	Republican	5th	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1917	[data missing]	[data missing]
Samuel Snider	Republican	4th	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	[data missing]	[data missing]
Arlan Stangeland	Republican	7th	February 22, 1977 – January 3, 1991	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Frank Starkey	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	4th	January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Halvor Steenerson	Republican	9th	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1923	[data missing]	[data missing]
Frederick Stevens	Republican	4th	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1915	[data missing]	[data missing]
Jacob H. Stewart	Republican	3rd	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	[data missing]	[data missing]
Horace B. Strait	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1879	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
		2nd	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883		Retired.
		3rd	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887
James Albertus Tawney	Republican	1st	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1911	[data missing]	[data missing]
Henry Teigan	Farmer–Labor	3rd	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939	[data missing]	Lost re-election.
Charles A. Towne	Republican	6th	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897	[data missing]	[data missing]
Carl Van Dyke	Democratic	4th	March 4, 1915 – May 20, 1919	[data missing]	Died.
Bruce Vento	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	4th	January 3, 1977 – October 10, 2000	[data missing]	Died.
Andrew Volstead	Republican	7th	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1923	[data missing]	[data missing]
James Wakefield	Republican	2nd	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887	[data missing]	[data missing]
Tim Walz	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	1st	January 3, 2007 – present	Mankato	First elected in 2006.
William D. Washburn	Republican	3rd	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883	[data missing]	[data missing]
		4th	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885
Vin Weber	Republican	6th	January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983	[data missing]	Retired.
		2nd	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993
Knud Wefald	Farmer–Labor	9th	March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1927	[data missing]	[data missing]
Milo White	Republican	1st	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887	[data missing]	[data missing]
Roy Wier	Democratic–Farmer–Labor	3rd	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1961	[data missing]	[data missing]
Thomas Wilson	Democratic	1st	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889	[data missing]	[data missing]
Eugene McLanahan Wilson	Democratic	2nd	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871	Winona	[data missing]
Morton S. Wilkinson	Republican	1st	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871	[data missing]	[data missing]
William Windom	Republican	1st	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1869	Winona	[data missing]
Oscar Youngdahl	Republican	5th	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1943	[data missing]	Lost renomination.
John M. Zwach	Republican	6th	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975	[data missing]	Retired.

Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota

As of December 2018, there are sixteen former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. State of Minnesota who are currently living at this time. The most recent representative to die was Robert Bergland (1971–1977) on December 9, 2018. The most recently serving representative to die was Jim Oberstar (1975–2011) on May 3, 2014.

Representative	Term of office	District	Date of birth (and age)
Al Quie	1958–1979	1st	(1923-09-18) September 18, 1923
Alec G. Olson	1963–1967	6th	(1930-09-11) September 11, 1930
Donald M. Fraser	1963–1979	5th	(1924-02-20) February 20, 1924
Tom Hagedorn	1975–1983	2nd	(1943-11-27) November 27, 1943
Arlen Erdahl	1979–1983	1st	(1931-02-27) February 27, 1931
Vin Weber	1981–1993	6th (1981–1983) 2nd (1983–1993)	(1952-07-24) July 24, 1952
Gerry Sikorski	1983–1993	6th	(1948-04-26) April 26, 1948
Tim Penny	1983–1995	1st	(1951-11-19) November 19, 1951
Jim Ramstad	1991–2009	3rd	(1946-05-06) May 6, 1946
David Minge	1993–2001	2nd	(1942-03-19) March 19, 1942
Bill Luther	1995–2003	6th	(1945-06-27) June 27, 1945
Gil Gutknecht	1995–2007	1st	(1951-03-20) March 20, 1951
Mark Kennedy	2001–2007	2nd (2001–2003) 6th (2003–2007)	(1955-04-11) April 11, 1955
John Kline	2003–2017	2nd	(1947-09-06) September 6, 1947
Michele Bachmann	2007–2015	6th	(1956-04-06) April 6, 1956
Chip Cravaack	2011–2013	8th	(1959-01-29) January 29, 1959