Minnesota's 1st Congressional District

Minnesota's 1st Congressional District elects one member to the U.S. House of Representatives. Below is the district's current representative, the members of Congress who held this seat before, and Minnesota's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Brad Finstad (Republican) currently represents Minnesota's 1st Congressional District. See Brad Finstad's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Minnesota's 1st Congressional District:

• Jim Hagedorn — Republican (until 2022)
• Timothy Walz — Democrat (until 2019)
• Gilbert Gutknecht — Republican (until 2007)
• Timothy Penny — Democrat (until 1995)
• Arlen Erdahl — Republican (until 1983)
• Albert Quie — Republican (until 1979)
• August Andresen — Republican (until 1959)
• Victor Christgau — Republican (until 1933)
• Allen Furlow — Republican (until 1929)
• Sydney Anderson — Republican (until 1925)

Minnesota U.S. Senators

• Amy Klobuchar — Democrat Senator
• Tina Smith — Democrat Senator
• Alan Franken — Democrat Senator
• Norm Coleman — Republican Senator
• Mark Dayton — Democrat Senator
• Dean Barkley — Independent Senator
• Paul Wellstone — Democrat Senator
• Rod Grams — Republican Senator
• David Durenberger — Republican Senator
• Rudolph Boschwitz — Republican Senator
• Wendell Anderson — Democrat Senator
• Muriel Humphrey — Democrat Senator
• Hubert Humphrey — Democrat Senator
• Walter Mondale — Democrat Senator
• Eugene McCarthy — Democrat Senator
• Edward Thye — Republican Senator
• Joseph Ball — Republican Senator
• Henrik Shipstead — Republican Senator
• Arthur Nelson — Republican Senator
• Ernest Lundeen — Farmer-Labor Senator
• Elmer Benson — Farmer-Labor Senator
• Guy Howard — Republican Senator
• Thomas Schall — Republican Senator
• Knute Nelson — Republican Senator
• Frank Kellogg — Republican Senator
• Moses Clapp — Republican Senator
• Cushman Davis — Republican Senator
• William Washburn — Republican Senator
• Dwight Sabin — Republican Senator
• Samuel McMillan — Republican Senator
• William Windom — Republican Senator
• Alonzo Edgerton — Republican Senator
• Alexander Ramsey — Republican Senator
• Ozora Stearns — Republican Senator
• Daniel Norton — Democrat Senator
• Henry Rice — Democrat Senator

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