Minnesota Senate, District 13

The 13th district of the Minnesota Senate is one of 67 Minnesota State Senate districts. It encompasses part of Stearns County. The seat has been held by Republican Jeff Howe of Rockville since 2018.^[1]

Minnesota's 13th State Senate district
Senator	Jeff Howe R–Rockville

List of senators

List of Minnesota State senators from District 12

Session	Image	Senator	Party	Term start	Term end	Residence	Counties represented	Ref.
1st		Boyd Phelps	Republican	December 2, 1857	December 6, 1859	Elkhorn	Dodge and Mower counties.	[2]
2nd		Alonzo J. Edgerton	Republican	December 7, 1859	January 7, 1861	Mantorville		[3]
3rd		Thomas McRoberts	N/A	January 8, 1861	January 6, 1862	La Crescent	Houston county.	[4]
4th		Charles H. See	Republican	January 7, 1862	January 4, 1864	Brownsville		[5]
5th
6th		Daniel Cameron	N/A	January 5, 1864	January 1, 1866	La Crescent		[6]
7th
8th		David L. Buell	N/A	January 2, 1866	January 7, 1867	Caledonia		[7]
9th		Daniel F. Temple	Republican	January 8, 1867	January 6, 1868	Wilmington		[8]
10th		David L. Buell	N/A	January 7, 1868	February 7, 1868	Caledonia		[9]
		George F. Potter	Republican	February 7, 1868	January 3, 1870	La Crescent		[10]
11th
12th		David L. Buell	N/A	January 4, 1970	January 1, 1972	Caledonia		[11]
13th
14th				January 2, 1972	January 6, 1973
15th		William G. Ward	Liberal Republican	January 7, 1873	January 4, 1875	Waseca	Waseca county.	[12]
16th
17th		Peter McGovern	N/A	January 5, 1875	January 1, 1877			[13]
18th
19th		Philo C. Bailey	Republican	January 2, 1877	January 6, 1879			[14]
20th
21st		Samuel B. Williams	N/A	January 7, 1879	January 3, 1881			[15]
22nd		Robert L. McCormick		January 4, 1881	January 1, 1883			[16]
23rd		James McLaughlin		January 2, 1883	February 22, 1883	Mantorville	Dodge county.	[17]
		Vacant		February 22, 1883	January 6, 1885
24th		Erasmus C. Severance	January 6, 1885	January 3, 1887	[18]
25th		E. N. Dodge	Republican	January 4, 1887	January 4, 1891	Claremont		[19]
26th
27th		Jeremiah Grinnell		January 5, 1891	January 3, 1893	Kasson		[20]
28th		John T. Little		January 6, 1893	January 6, 1895			[21]
29th		Henry Currier		January 7, 1895	January 1, 1899	Concord		[22]
30th
31st		William Viesselman	Democratic	January 2nd, 1899	January 4th, 1903	Fairmont	Martin and Watonwan counties.	[23]
32nd
33rd		Thomas Thorson	Republican	January 5, 1903	January 6, 1907	Saint James		[24]
34th
35th		William A. Hinton		January 7, 1907	January 1, 1911	Truman		[25]
36th
37th		Julius E. Haycraft		January 1, 1911	January 3, 1915	Madelia		[26]
38th
39th		Olai Andreason Lende		January 4, 1915	January 5, 1919	Canby	Lyon and Yellow Medicine counties.	[27]
40th
41st		James H. Hall	Non-Partisan	January 6, 1919	January 1, 1923	Marshall		[28]
42nd
43rd		Konrad K. Solberg		January 2, 1923	January 2, 1927	Clarkfield		[29]
44th
45th				January 3, 1927	January 4, 1931
46th
47th		Emil L. Regnier	Non-Partisan (Liberal caucus)	January 5, 1931	January 6, 1935	Marshall		[30]
48th
49th		Ansgar Lorenzo Almen	Non-Partisan	January 7, 1935	January 1, 1939	Balaton		[31]
50th
51st				January 2, 1939	January 3, 1943
52nd
53rd				January 4, 1943	January 5, 1947
54th
55th				January 6, 1947	December 31, 1950
56th
57th			Non-Partisan (Conservative caucus)	January 1, 1951	January 2, 1955
58th
59th		Joe A. Josefson		January 3, 1955	January 4, 1959	Minneota		[32]
60th
61st				January 5, 1959	January 6, 1963
62nd
63rd		Paul A. Thuet Jr.	Non-Partisan (Liberal Caucus)	January 7, 1963	January 1, 1967	South Saint Paul	Dakota county.	[33]
64th
65th		Victor N. Jude		January 2, 1967	January 3, 1971	Maple	Hennepin and Wright counties	[34]
66th
67th				January 4, 1971	December 31, 1972
68th		Winston W. Borden	Non-Partisan (Democratic-Farmer-Labor caucus)	January 1, 1973	January 2, 1977	Brainerd	Aitkin, Crow Wing and Kanabec counties.	[35]
69th
70th			Democratic-Farmer-Labor	January 3, 1977	January 1, 1979
71st		David E. Rued	Independent Republican	January 2, 1979	January 1, 1983	Aitkin		[36]
72nd
73rd		Donald B. Samuelson	Democratic-Farmer-Labor	January 2, 1983	January 3, 1987	Brainerd	Cass, Crow Wing and Morrison counties	[37]
74th
75th				January 4, 1987	January 6, 1991
76th
77th				January 7, 1991	January 3, 1993
78th				January 4, 1993	January 5, 1997
79th
80th				January 6, 1997	December 31, 2000
81st
82nd				January 1, 2001	January 5, 2003
83rd		Dean Elton Johnson		January 6, 2003	December 31, 2006	Willmar	Kandiyohi, Pope and Stearns counties.	[38]
84th
85th		Joseph Gimse	Republican	January 1, 2007	January 2, 2011			[39]
86th
87th				January 3, 2011	January 6, 2013
88th		Michelle Fischbach		January 7, 2013	January 1, 2017	Paynesville	Benton and Stearns counties.	[40]
89th
90th				January 2, 2017	May 25, 2018
		Jeff Howe		December 11, 2018	January 3, 2021	Rockville		[41]
91st
92nd				January 4, 2021	January 1, 2023
93rd				January 2, 2023	Incumbent
94th							Stearns county