Speakers of the Minnesota House of Representatives - List of Speakers of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Martin Olav Sabo (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Albert R. Hall (Minnesota politician), Alfred I. Johnson, Amos Coggswell, Anton J. Rockne, Arthur N. Dare, Aubrey W. Dirlam, Charles A. Gilman, Charles D. Sherwood, Charles H. Graves, Charles Munn, Chester D. Davidson, David M. Jennings, Dee Long, Edwin J. Chilgren, Ezra T. Champlin, Frank Clague, Fred C. Norton, George Bradley (Minnesota politician), George W. Johnson (Minnesota politician), H.H. Flowers, Harold H. Barker, Harry A. Sieben, Henry Rines, Howard H. Dunn, Irv Anderson, James Wakefield, Jared Benson, John A. Hartle, John A. Johnson (politician), John D. Jones, John L. Gibbs, John L. Merriam, John Q. Farmer, Lawrence H. Johnson, Lawrence M. Hall, Leverett W. Babcock, List of Speakers of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Lloyd L. Duxbury, Loren Fletcher, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Martin Olav Sabo, Michael J. Dowling (Minnesota politician), Oscar A. Swenson, Phil Carruthers, Ralph J. Parker, Robert Vanasek, Rodney N. Searle, Samuel Rinnah Van Sant, Steve Sviggum, Thomas H. Armstrong, William E. Lee, William I. Nolan, William R. Kinyon, William Rush Merriam. Excerpt: This is a list of Speakers of the Minnesota House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House is usually the leader of the majority party, and is the most powerful figure in the House. The current House Speaker is Rep. Kurt Zellers. 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 1974, House members again ran with party designation. List of speakers at Minnesota Legislative Library Steven A. "Steve" Sviggum is a Minnesota politician, a former member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, and an executive assistant to and communications director for the Republican caucus in the Minnesota Senate. A former Speaker and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Sviggum represented District 28B in the southeastern part of the state. The area was known as District 25A prior to the 1982 legislative redistricting, and as District 26A prior to the 1992 redistricting, and has included all or portions of Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca and Winona counties. Of Norwegian-American ancestry, Sviggum was born in September 1951. He received a B.A. in mathematics from St. Olaf College in Northfield, and later worked as both a teacher and a farmer. Sviggum was first elected to the House in 1978. He served as minority leader from 1993-1999, and became Speaker following the 1998 elections, when the Republicans took control of the House from the Democrats. He began his speakership under unusual circumstances; 1998 also saw the election of Reform Party candidate Jesse Ventura as governor, while