Minnesota's 5th Congressional District

Minnesota's 5th 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

Ilhan Omar (Democrat) currently represents Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. See Ilhan Omar's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Minnesota's 5th Congressional District:

• Keith Ellison — Democrat (until 2019)
• Martin Sabo — Democrat (until 2007)
• Donald Fraser — Democrat (until 1979)
• Walter Judd — Republican (until 1963)
• Oscar Youngdahl — Republican (until 1943)
• Dewey Johnson — Farmer-Labor (until 1939)
• Theodore Christianson — Republican (until 1937)
• William Nolan — Republican (until 1933)
• Walter Newton — Republican (until 1931)
• George Smith — Republican (until 1917)

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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