U.S. Senate · Historical · Minnesota
Former U.S. Senators from Minnesota
Individuals who have served in the United States Senate and have since left office, grouped by the state they represented. The Senate seats two members from each state, each elected to a staggered six-year term across three classes (I, II, and III); the members below have completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or appointment to other office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former senator’s biography, the state and party they represented, their Senate Class, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, or open a state to see just that state’s former delegation. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a senator’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-senators hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
- Al FrankenMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class II2009–2018
- Alexander RamseyMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1863–1875
- Alonzo EdgertonMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1881–1881
- Arthur NelsonMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1942–1943
- Charles TowneMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class I1900–1901
- Cushman DavisMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1887–1901
- Daniel NortonMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class II1865–1871
- David DurenbergerMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1978–1995
- Dean BarkleyMinnesotaIndependentSenate Class II2002–2003
- Dwight SabinMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1883–1889
- Edward ThyeMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1947–1959
- Elmer BensonMinnesotaFarmer-LaborSenate Class II1935–1937
- Ernest LundeenMinnesotaFarmer-LaborSenate Class II1937–1941
- Eugene McCarthyMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class I1959–1971
- Frank KelloggMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1917–1923
- Guy HowardMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1936–1937
- Henrik ShipsteadMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1923–1947
- Henry RiceMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class I1858–1863
- Hubert Humphrey Jr.MinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class I1949–1978
- Joseph BallMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1940–1949
- Knute NelsonMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1895–1923
- Magnus JohnsonMinnesotaFarmer-LaborSenate Class II1923–1925
- Mark DaytonMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class I2001–2007
- Morton WilkinsonMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1859–1865
- Moses ClappMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1901–1917
- Muriel HumphreyMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class I1978–1978
- Norm ColemanMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II2003–2009
- Ozora StearnsMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1871–1871
- Paul WellstoneMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class II1991–2002
- Rod GramsMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1995–2001
- Rudy BoschwitzMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1978–1991
- Samuel McMillanMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class I1875–1887
- Thomas SchallMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1925–1935
- Walter MondaleMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class II1964–1976
- Wendell AndersonMinnesotaDemocraticSenate Class II1976–1978
- William WashburnMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1889–1895
- William WindomMinnesotaRepublicanSenate Class II1870–1883