Minnesota Senate, District 11 Explained

The Minnesota Senate, District 11, includes portions of Carlton, Kanabec, Pine and St. Louis counties in the northeastern part of the state. It is currently held by Republican Jason Rarick who was elected in a special election in 2019.

List of senators

Session	Senator	Party	Term start	Term end	Home	Location
1st	Samuel S. Beman^[1]	Rep	December 2, 1857	December 6, 1859	Saratoga	Winona
	Daniel Sheldon Norton^[2]				Winona
2nd	Ephraim L. King^[3]	Non	December 7, 1859	January 7, 1861
	J.M. Winn^[4]				Richmond
3rd	Daniel Sheldon Norton	Rep	January 8, 1861	January 6, 1862	Winona
4th	M. Wheeler Sargeant^[5]		January 7, 1862	January 4, 1864
5th
6th	Daniel Sheldon Norton		January 5, 1864	January 1, 1866
7th
8th	Thomas Simpson^[6]		Non	January 2, 1866			January 7, 1867
9th	William Hall Yale^[7]		Rep	January 8, 1867			January 6, 1868
10th	Benjamin Franklin^[8]		Dem	January 7, 1868			1868?^[9]
11th	Samuel B. Sheardown^[10]		Rep	January 5, 1869	January 3, 1870		Stockton
12th	Cornelius F. Buck^[11]	Dem	January 4, 1870	January 1, 1872	Winona
13th
14th	Joseph H. Clark^[12]	Rep	January 2, 1872	January 6, 1873	Claremont	Dodge
15th	H.H. Atherton^[13]		January 7, 1873	January 4, 1875	Kasson
16th
17th	Joseph H. Clark		January 5, 1875	January 1, 1877	Rice Lake
18th
19th	Alonzo J. Edgerton^[14]		January 2, 1877	January 6, 1879	Mantorville
20th
21st	John Gorham^[15]		January 7, 1879	January 3, 1881	Rice Lake
22nd	James McLaughlin^[16]		Non	January 4, 1881	January 1, 1883		Mantorville
23rd	Robert O. Craig^[17]	Dem	January 2, 1883	January 3, 1887	Janesville	Waseca
24th
25th	William Ward^[18]	Rep	January 4, 1887	January 5, 1891	Waseca
26th
27th	Robert O. Craig	Dem	January 6, 1891	January 7, 1895	Janesville
28th
29th	Eugene Belnap Collester^[19]	Rep	January 8, 1895	January 2, 1899	Waseca
30th
31st	Clifford L. Benedict^[20]		January 3, 1899	January 5, 1903	Mankato	Blue Earth
32nd
33rd	Adolph Olson Eberhart^[21]		January 6, 1903	January 7, 1907
34th
35th	Samuel Works^[22]	Dem	January 8, 1907	January 4, 1915
36th
37th
38th
39th	Samuel B. Nelson^[23]	Lib	January 5, 1915	January 6, 1919	Luverne	NoblesRock
40th
41st	John A. Cashel^[24]	Non	January 7, 1919	January 3, 1927	Worthington
42nd
43rd
44th
45th	Lauritz Lund^[25]		January 4, 1927	January 5, 1931	Luverne
46th
47th	Frank Sell^[26]	Con	January 6, 1931	January 4, 1943	Adrian
48th
49th
50th
51st
52nd
53rd	John Engebretson^[27]	Non	January 5, 1943	January 6, 1947	Kenneth
54th
55th	Milford Wesley Davis^[28]		January 7, 1947	January 1, 1951	Reading
56th
57th	Andy A. Anderson^[29]	Con	January 2, 1951	January 5, 1959	Luverne
58th
59th
60th
61st	John L. Olson^[30]		January 6, 1959	January 7, 1963	Worthington
62nd
63rd	Val Imm^[31]		January 8, 1963	January 2, 1967	Mankato	Blue Earth
64th
65th	Fred Kelton Gage, Jr.^[32]		January 3, 1967	January 1, 1973
66th
67th
68th	Wayne Olhoft^[33]	DFL	January 2, 1973	January 3, 1983	Herman	Douglas Grant Otter Tail Traverse
69th
70th
71st
72nd
73rd	Charlie Berg^[34]	Ind Rep	January 4, 1983	January 4, 1993	Chokio	Big Stone Douglas Grant Stevens Swift Traverse
74th
75th		DFL
76th
77th
78th	Dallas Sams^[35]		January 5, 1993	January 2, 2007	Staples	Becker Douglas Otter Tail Stearns Todd Wadena
79th
80th
81st
82nd
83rd						Douglas Grant Stevens Todd
84th
85th	Bill G. Ingebrigtsen^[36]	Rep	January 3, 2007	January 7, 2013	Alexandria
86th
87th
88th	Tony Lourey^[37]	DFL	January 8, 2013	January 3, 2019	Kerrick	Carlton Kanabec Pine St. Louis
89th
90th
91st	Vacant		January 8, 2019	February 13, 2019
	Jason Rarick	Republican	February 13, 2019	Incumbent	Pine City

1. Web site: Beman, Samuel S. "S.S." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
2. Web site: Norton, Daniel Sheldon "D.S." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
3. Web site: King, Ephraim L. "E.L." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
4. Web site: Winn, J. M. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
5. Web site: Sargeant, M. Wheeler "M.W." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
6. Web site: Simpson, Thomas - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
7. Web site: Yale, William Hall "W.H." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
8. Web site: Franklin, Benjamin - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
9. Died in office, date unknown
10. Web site: Sheardown, Samuel B. "S.B." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
11. Web site: Buck, Cornelius F. "C.F." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
12. Web site: Clark, Joseph H. "J.H." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
13. Web site: Atherton, H. H. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
14. Web site: Edgerton, Alonzo Jay "A.J." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
15. Web site: Gorham, John - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
16. Web site: McLaughlin, James - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
17. Web site: Craig, Robert O. "R.O." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
18. Web site: Ward, William G. "W.G." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
19. Web site: Collester, Eugene Belnap "E.B." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
20. Web site: Benedict, Clifford L. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
21. Web site: Eberhart, Adolph Olson "A.O." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-15.
22. Web site: Works, Samuel D. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
23. Web site: Nelson, Samuel B. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
24. Web site: Cashel, John A. "J.A." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
25. Web site: Lund, Lauritz P. "L.P." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
26. Web site: Sell, Frank J. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
27. Web site: Engebretson, John - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
28. Web site: Davis, Milford Wesely - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
29. Web site: Anderson, Andy A. "A.A." - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
30. Web site: Olson, John L. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
31. Web site: Imm, Val - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
32. Web site: Gage, Jr., Fred Kelton "Kelly" - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
33. Web site: Olhoft, Wayne - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
34. Web site: Berg, Charles A. "Charlie" - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
35. Web site: Sams, Dallas C. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
36. Web site: Ingebrigtsen, Bill G. - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.
37. Web site: Lourey, Tony - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present. www.leg.state.mn.us. en. 2018-07-18.