- List of Minnesota Senate Majority Leaders
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This is a list of Majority Leaders of the Minnesota Senate
Name Took Office Left Office Party/Caucus Charles N. Orr 1933 1949 Conservative Archie H. Miller 1949 1959 Conservative John M. Zwach 1959 1967 Conservative Stanley W. Holmquist 1967 1973 Conservative Nick Coleman 1973 1981 Democratic-Farmer-Labor Roger Moe 1981 2003 Democratic-Farmer-Labor John Hottinger 2003 2004 Democratic-Farmer-Labor Dean Johnson 2004 2007 Democratic-Farmer-Labor Larry Pogemiller 2007 2011 Democratic-Farmer-Labor Amy Koch 2011 present Republican 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.
- Republican Party of Minnesota: From November 15, 1975 to September 23, 1995 the name of the state Republican party was the Independent-Republican party (I-R). The party has always been affiliated with the national Republican Party.
In 1913, Minnesota legislators began to be elected on nonpartisan ballots. Nonpartisanship also was an historical accident that occurred in the 1913 session when a bill to provide for no party elections of judges and city and county officers was amended to include the Legislature in the belief that it would kill the bill. Legislators ran and caucused as "Liberals" or "Conservatives" roughly equivalent in most years to Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Republican, respectively. The law was changed in 1973, in 1976, Senate members again ran with party designation.
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