List of Minority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives
This is a list of Minority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

List of Minority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives

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Table Section Text: This is a list of Minority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party/Caucus

Charles L. Halstead	1945	1947	Liberal

Joseph L Prifrel	1947	1949	Liberal

Edwin J. Chilgren	1949	1951	Liberal

Fred A. Cina	1951	1955	Liberal

John A. Hartle	1955	1957	Conservative

Odin E. S. Langen	1957	1959	Conservative

Lloyd L. Duxbury	1959	1963	Conservative

Fred A. Cina	1963	1969	Liberal

Martin Olav Sabo	1969	1973	Liberal

Aubrey W. Dirlam	1973	1975	Republican

Henry J. Savelkoul	1975	1979	Independent-Republican

None	1979	1980

Rod Searle	1980	1981	Independent-Republican

Glen Sherwood	1981	1982	Independent-Republican

David M. Jennings	1982	1985	Independent-Republican

Fred Norton	1985	1987	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

William R. Schreiber	1987	1991	Independent-Republican

Terry Dempsey	1991	1993	Independent-Republican

Steve Sviggum	1993	1999	Independent-Republican/Republican

Tom Pugh	1999	2003	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Matt Entenza	2003	2006	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Margaret Anderson Kelliher	2006	2007	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Marty Seifert	2007	2009	Republican

Kurt Zellers	2009	2011	Republican

Paul Thissen	2011	2013	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Kurt Daudt	2013	2015	Republican

Paul Thissen	2015	2017	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Melissa Hortman	2017	2019	Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Kurt Daudt	2019	Incumbent	Republican

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Henry J. Savelkoul was the Minority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975-1979.

final_sentence: Henry J. Savelkoul was the Minority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975-1979.