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Tim Walz
Timothy James Walz is an American politician, former educator, and Army National Guard veteran serving since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district, and was the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura is an American politician, Vietnam veteran, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation, he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor with the Reform Party and is the party's only candidate to win a major government office.
Tim Pawlenty
American politician (born 1960)
Norm Coleman
American politician
Mark Dayton
40th Governor of Minnesota; former United States Senator from Minnesota
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
American politician (1831-1901)
Wendell R. Anderson
American politician (1933-2016)
Tom Emmer
U.S. Representative from Minnesota and far-right Somalophobic activist
Alexander Ramsey
American politician (1815-1903)
Al Quie
American politician (1923-2023)
Charles August Lindbergh
American politician (1859-1924)
Floyd B. Olson
22nd governor of Minnesota (1891-1936)
Harold Stassen
25th Governor of Minnesota (1907-2001)
Elmer Austin Benson
American politician (1895-1985)
Orville Freeman
American politician (1918-2003)
Knute Nelson
American politician (1842-1923)
Arne Carlson
American politician
Cushman Kellogg Davis
American politician (1838-1900)
Ernest Lundeen
American politician (1878-1940)
Henry Mower Rice
American politician, Minnesota (1816-1894)
Henrik Shipstead
American politician (1881-1960)

C. Elmer Anderson
American politician (1912-1998)
Magnus Johnson
American politician (1871–1936)

Edward John Thye
American politician (1896-1969)
Elmer L. Andersen
Businessman and politician (1909-2004)
Karl Rolvaag
American diplomat (1913-1990)
Rudy Perpich
American politician (1928-1995)
Moses E. Clapp
American politician (1851-1929)
John Lind
American politician (1854-1930)
Theodore Christianson
American politician (1883-1948)
William D. Washburn
American politician (1831–1912)
Henry Hastings Sibley
American politician and military leader (1811–1891)

Samuel Rinnah Van Sant
American politician (1844-1936)

Luther Youngdahl
American judge (1896-1978)
John S. Pillsbury
American governor of Minnesota (1827-1901)
Adolph Olson Eberhart
American politician (1870-1944)
John Albert Johnson
American politician from Minnesota (1861-1909)
Stephen Miller
American politician (1816-1881)
Andrew Ryan McGill
American politician (1840-1905)

Winfield Scott Hammond
American politician (1863-1915)

Lucius Frederick Hubbard
American politician (1836-1913)
George MacKinnon
American politician, attorney, and judge (1906-1995)
Harold LeVander
American politician (1910-1992)
Eugene McLanahan Wilson
American politician (1833-1890)
Tim Penny
American politician

Hjalmar Petersen
American politician (1890-1968)
Skip Humphrey
American politician
J. A. O. Preus I
American politician (1883-1961)
William Rush Merriam
American politician (1849–1931)
Joseph A. A. Burnquist
American politician (1879-1961)
Edmund Rice
American politician (1819-1889)
Horace Austin
American politician (1831-1905)
John L. Gibbs
American politician (1838–1908)
William Rainey Marshall
American politician (1825-1896)
Thomas Wilson
American lawyer, Minnesota congressman and state legislator, associate justice and the 2nd chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1827-1910)

Mike Hatch
American politician

A. A. Ames
American Civil War surgeon, mob boss and politician (1842–1911)
Charles A. Gilman
American politician (1833-1927)
Thomas H. Armstrong
American politician (1829–1891)
Ray P. Chase
American politician (1880-1948)