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These are tables of congressional delegations from Minnesota to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.

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United States Senate

House of Representatives

Members from the State of Minnesota

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United States Senate

Class 1 Senators	Congress	Class 2 Senators
Henry Mower RiceA (D)	'35th' (1857 – 1859)	James ShieldsB (D)
	'36th' (1859 – 1861)	Morton S. Wilkinson (R)
	'37th' (1861 – 1863)
Alexander Ramsey (R)	'38th' (1863 – 1865)
	'39th' (1865 – 1867)	Daniel S. Norton1 (R)
	'40th' (1867 – 1869)
	'41st' (1869 – 1871)
		William Windom1 (R)
		Ozora P. Stearns1 (R)
	'42nd' (1871 – 1873)	William Windom2 (R)
	'43rd' (1873 – 1875)
Samuel J. R. McMillan (R)	'44th' (1875 – 1877)
	'45th' (1877 – 1879)
	'46th' (1879 – 1881)
	'47th' (1881 – 1883)	Alonzo J. Edgerton2 (R)
		William Windom2 (R)
	'48th' (1883 – 1885)	Dwight M. Sabin (R)
	'49th' (1885 – 1887)
Cushman K. Davis3 (R)	'50th' (1887 – 1889)
	'51st' (1889 – 1891)	William D. Washburn (R)
	'52nd' (1891 – 1893)
	'53rd' (1893 – 1895)
	'54th' (1895 – 1897)	Knute Nelson 4(R)
	'55th' (1897 – 1899)
	'56th' (1899 – 1901)
Charles A. Towne3 (D)
Moses E. Clapp3 (R)
	'57th' (1901 – 1903)
	'58th' (1903 – 1905)
	'59th' (1905 – 1907)
	'60th' (1907 – 1909)
	'61st' (1909 – 1911)
	'62nd' (1911 – 1913)
	'63rd' (1913 – 1915)
	'64th' (1915 – 1917)
Frank B. Kellogg (R)	'65th' (1917 – 1919)
	'66th' (1919 – 1921)
	'67th' (1921 – 1923)
Henrik Shipstead (FLP)	'68th' (1923 – 1925)
		Magnus Johnson 4 (FLP)
	'69th' (1925 – 1927)	Thomas D. Schall5 (R)
	'70th' (1927 – 1929)
	'71st' (1929 – 1931)
	'72nd' (1931 – 1933)
	'73rd' (1933 – 1935)
	'74th' (1935 – 1937)
		Elmer Benson5 (FLP)
		Guy V. Howard5 (R)
	'75th' (1937 – 1939)	Ernest Lundeen 6 (FLP)
	'76th' (1939 – 1941)
		Joseph H. Ball 6 (R)
Henrik Shipstead (R)	'77th' (1941 – 1943)
		Arthur E. Nelson 6 (R)
	'78th' (1943 – 1945)	Joseph H. Ball (R)
	'79th' (1945 – 1947)
Edward John Thye (R)	'80th' (1947 – 1949)
	'81st' (1949 – 1951)	Hubert Humphrey7 (DFL)
	'82nd' (1951 – 1953)
	'83rd' (1953 – 1955)
	'84th' (1955 – 1957)
	'85th' (1957 – 1959)
Eugene McCarthy (DFL)	'86th' (1959 – 1961)
	'87th' (1961 – 1963)
	'88th' (1963 – 1965)
		Walter Mondale7,8 (DFL)
	'89th' (1965 – 1967)
	'90th' (1967 – 1969)
	'91st' (1969 – 1971)
Hubert Humphrey9 (DFL)	'92nd' (1971 – 1973)
	'93rd' (1973 – 1975)
	'94th' (1975 – 1977)
		Wendell Anderson8 (DFL)
	'95th' (1977 – 1979)
Muriel Humphrey9 (DFL)
David Durenberger9 (R)		Rudy Boschwitz8 (R)
	'96th' (1979 – 1981)
	'97th' (1981 – 1983)
	'98th' (1983 – 1985)
	'99th' (1985 – 1987)
	'100th' (1987 – 1989)
	'101st' (1989 – 1991)
	'102nd' (1991 – 1993)	Paul Wellstone10 (DFL)
	'103rd' (1993 – 1995)
Rod Grams (R)	'104th' (1995 – 1997)
	'105th' (1997 – 1999)
	'106th' (1999 – 2001)
Mark Dayton (DFL)	'107th' (2001 – 2003)
		Dean Barkley10 (I)
	'108th' (2003 – 2005)	Norm Coleman (R)
	'109th' (2005 – 2007)
Amy Klobuchar (DFL)	'110th' (2007 – 2009)

^ARice served from May 11, 1858 (date Minnesota enter the Union) until the end of the term March 3, 1863.

^BShields served from May 11, 1858 (date Minnesota enter the Union) until the end of the term March 3, 1859.

¹ Norton served until his death on July 13, 1870. William Windom was appointed to fill the vacancy and served from July 1870 to January 1871. Stearns was elected to fill the term from January 1871 to March 3, 1871.

²Windom resigned his senate seat March 7, 1881 to become United States Secretary of the Treasury. Edgerton was appointed to the senate seat and served from March 12, 1881 to October 30, 1881. Windom resigned as United States Secretary of the Treasury and was elected to fill the vancy caused by his own resignation. He served the reminder of the term from November 15, 1881 to March 3, 1883.

³Cushman K. Davis served until his death on November 27, 1900. Charles A. Towne was appointed to fill the vacancy and served from December 5, 1900 – January 28, 1901. Clapp was elected to finished the term to March 3, 1905

⁴Knute Nelson served until his death on April 28, 1923. Magnus Johnson was elected to fill the vacancy and served from July 16, 1923 – March 3, 1925.

⁵Thomas D. Schall served until his death on December 22, 1935. Elmer Benson was appointed to the vacancy and served from December 27, 1935 to November 3, 1936. Guy Howard was elected November 4, 1936 to finish out the term to January 3, 1937.

⁶Ernest Lundeen served until his death on August 31, 1940. Joseph Ball was appointed to the vacancy and served from October 14, 1940 to November 17, 1942. Arthur Nelson was elected in November of 1942 to finish out the term to January 3, 1943.

⁷Hubert Humphrey resigned on December 30, 1964 in order to take the office of Vice President. Walter Mondale was appointed on December 30, 1964 to fill the vacancy in the Senate.

⁸Walter Mondale resigned on December 30, 1976 in order to take the office of Vice President. Wendell Anderson resigned as Governor and was appointed on December 30, 1976 to fill the vacancy in the Senate. Anderson lost the 1978 election and resigned early on December 29, 1978. Rudy Boschwitz was appointed on December 30, 1978 to finish the term on January 3, 1979. Boschwitz than began his own term on January 3, 1979

⁹Hubert Humphrey served until his death on January 13, 1978. Muriel Humphrey was appointed to fill the vacancy and served until a special November 1978 election in which David Durenberger won and finished out the term.

¹⁰Paul Wellstone served until his death on October 25, 2002. Dean Barkley served from November 5, 2002 to January 3, 2003.

House of Representatives

===Delegates from the Minnesota Territory===

Congress	Delegate
'31st'(1849 – 1850)	Henry Hastings Sibley
'32nd'(1851 – 1852)
'33rd'(1853 – 1854)	Henry Mower Rice
'34th'(1855 – 1856)
'35th'(1857 – 1858)	William W. Kingsbury

Members from the State of Minnesota

Congress	State-wide at-large on a general ticket
'35th' (1857–1859)	James M. Cavanaugh	William Wallace Phelps
'36th' (1859–1861)	William Windom	Cyrus Aldrich
'37th' (1861–1863)
	District
'38th' (1863–1865)	William Windom	Ignatius L. Donnelly	''no 3rd district''	''no 4th district''	''no 5th district''	''no 6th district''	''no 7th district''	''no 8th district''	''no 9th district''	''no 10th district''
'39th' (1865–1867)
'40th' (1867–1869)
'41st' (1869–1871)	Morton S. Wilkinson	Eugene McLanahan Wilson
'42nd' (1871–1873)	Mark H. Dunnell	John T. Averill
'43rd' (1873–1875)		Horace B. Strait	John T. Averill
'44th' (1875–1877)			William S. King
'45th' (1877–1879)			Jacob H. Stewart
'46th' (1879–1881)		Henry Poehler	William D. Washburn
'47th' (1881–1883)		Horace B. Strait
'48th' (1883–1885)	Milo White	James Wakefield	Horace B. Strait	William D. Washburn	Knute Nelson
'49th' (1885–1887)				John Gilfillan
'50th' (1887–1889)	Thomas Wilson	John Lind	John L. MacDonald	Edmund Rice
'51st' (1889–1891)	Mark H. Dunnell		Darwin Hall	Samuel Snider	Solomon Comstock
'52nd' (1891–1893)	William H. Harries		Osee M. Hall	James Castle	Kittel Halvorson
'53rd' (1893–1895)	James Albertus Tawney	James McCleary		Andrew Kiefer	Loren Fletcher	Melvin Baldwin	Haldor Boen
'54th' (1895–1897)			Joel Heatwole			Charles A. Towne	Frank Eddy
'55th' (1897–1899)				Frederick Stevens		Robert P. Morris
'56th' (1899–1901)
'57th' (1901–1903)
'58th' (1903–1905)			Charles Russell Davis		John Lind	Clarence Buckman	Andrew Volstead	James Adam Bede	Halvor Steenerson
'59th' (1905–1907)					Loren Fletcher
'60th' (1907–1909)		Winfield Scott Hammond			Frank Nye	Charles Lindbergh
'61st' (1909–1911)								Clarence B. Miller
'62nd' (1911–1913)	Sydney Anderson
'63rd' (1913–1915)					George Ross Smith
'64th' (1915–1917)		Franklin Ellsworth		Carl Van Dyke1						Thomas D. Schall
'65th' (1917–1919)					Ernest Lundeen	Harold Knutson
'66th' (1919–1921)				Oscar Keller³	Walter Newton²			William Leighton Carss
'67th' (1921–1923)		Frank Clague						Oscar Larson
'68th' (1923–1925)							Ole J. Kvale1		Knud Wefald
'69th' (1925–1927)	Allen J. Furlow		August H. Andresen					William Leighton Carss		Godfrey G. Goodwin1
'70th' (1927–1929)				Melvin Maas					Conrad Selvig
'71st' (1929–1931)	Victor Christgau				William I. Nolan³		Paul John Kvale³	William Pittenger
'72nd' (1931–1933)
	State-wide at-large on a general ticket									''no 10th district''
'73rd' (1933–1935)	Henry M. Arens	Ray P. Chase	Theodore Christianson	Einar Hoidale	Magnus Johnson	Harold Knutson	Paul John Kvale	Ernest Lundeen	Francis Shoemaker
	District
'74th' (1935–1937)	August H. Andresen1	Elmer Ryan	Ernest Lundeen	Melvin Maas	Theodore Christianson	Harold Knutson	Paul John Kvale	William Pittenger	Rich T. Buckler
'75th' (1937–1939)			Henry Teigan		Dewey Johnson			John Bernard
'76th' (1939–1941)			John G. Alexander		Oscar Youngdahl		H. Carl Andersen	William Pittenger
'77th' (1941–1943)		Joseph P. O'Hara	Richard Pillsbury Gale
'78th' (1943–1945)					Walter Judd				Harold Hagen
'79th' (1945–1947)			William Gallagher1	Frank Starkey					Harold Hagen
'80th' (1947–1949)			George MacKinnon	Edward Devitt				John Blatnik
'81st' (1949–1951)			Roy Wier	Eugene McCarthy		Fred Marshall
'82nd' (1951–1953)
'83rd' (1953–1955)
'84th' (1955–1957)									Coya Knutson
'85th' (1957–1959)
'86th' (1959–1961)	Al Quie³	Ancher Nelsen		Joseph Karth					Odin Langen
'87th' (1961–1963)			Clark MacGregor
'88th' (1963–1965)					Donald M. Fraser	Alec Olson	Odin Langen		''no 9th district''
'89th' (1965–1967)
'90th' (1967–1969)						John Zwach
'91st' (1969–1971)
'92nd' (1971–1973)			Bill Frenzel				Robert Bergland²
'93rd' (1973–1975)
'94th' (1975–1977)		Tom Hagedorn				Richard Nolan		Jim Oberstar
'95th' (1977–1979)				Bruce Vento1			Arlan Stangeland³
'96th' (1979–1981)	Arlen Erdahl				Martin Olav Sabo
'97th' (1981–1983)						Vin Weber
'98th' (1983–1985)	Tim Penny	Vin Weber				Gerry Sikorski
'99th' (1985–1987)
'100th' (1987–1989)
'101st' (1989–1991)
'102nd' (1991–1993)			Jim Ramstad				Collin Peterson
'103rd' (1993–1995)		David Minge				Rod Grams
'104th' (1995–1997)	Gil Gutknecht					Bill Luther
'105th' (1997–1999)
'106th' (1999–2001)
'107th' (2001–2003)		Mark Kennedy		Betty McCollum
'108th' (2003–2005)		John Kline				Mark Kennedy
'109th' (2005–2007)
'110th' (2007–2009)	Tim Walz				Keith Ellison	Michele Bachmann

Key

¹ Died in office

² Resigned

³ Elected to fill vacancy