State: | Minnesota Territory |
District Number: | AL |
Member Type: | Delegate |
Representative: | N/A |
Obsolete: | yes |
Created: | 1849 |
Custom Created: | as a non-voting delegate was granted by Congress |
Eliminated: | 1858 |
Statehood Eliminated: | yes |
Years: | 1849–1858 |
Before statehood, Minnesota Territory sent a non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
Delegate | Party | Years | Cong ress | Electoral history | |||
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District created March 3, 1849 | |||||||
align=left | Henry Hastings Sibley | Democratic | nowrap | July 7, 1849 – March 3, 1853 | Elected in 1849 and seated December 3, 1849. Re-elected in 1850. Retired. | ||
align=left | Henry Mower Rice | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857 | Elected in 1852. Re-elected in 1854. Retired. | ||
align=left | William W. Kingsbury | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1857 – May 11, 1858 | Elected in 1856. Retired when district eliminated. | ||
District eliminated May 11, 1858 |
The seat was eliminated after Minnesota was admitted to the Union. Western portions of the territory fell unorganized until re-organization in the Dakota Territory in 1861.