Given the question: Information: - The Territory of Minnesota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 3, 1849, until May 11, 1858, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Minnesota. - Timothy James '' Tim '' Pawlenty ( / plnti / ; born November 27 , 1960 ) is president and CEO of Financial Services Roundtable , a Washington , D.C. - based industry advocacy group . He was a Republican politician who served as the 39th Governor of Minnesota ( 2003 -- 2011 ) . He previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives ( 1993 -- 2003 ) , where he was majority leader for two terms . In 2011 he entered the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and later was a potential vice presidential nominee before serving as co-chair of Mitt Romney 's campaign . Pawlenty was born in Saint Paul , Minnesota , and raised in nearby South St. Paul . He graduated from University of Minnesota with a B.A. in political science and a J.D. His early career included working as a labor law attorney and the vice president of a software as a service company . After settling in the city of Eagan with his wife , Pawlenty was appointed to the city 's Planning Commission and was elected to the Eagan City Council at the age of 28 . He won a seat as a state representative in 1992 , representing District 38B in suburban Dakota County . He was re-elected four times and was voted majority leader by House Republicans in 1998 . After winning a narrow Republican primary in 2002 , Pawlenty won a three - way election for Governor of Minnesota , and was re-elected in 2006 by a margin of less than one percent . His campaign platform focused on balancing the budget without raising taxes . During Pawlenty 's governorship he did not raise income taxes , but did enact targeted increases in sales tax and user fees . His administration advocated for numerous public works projects , including work on the Northstar Commuter Rail Line , and the construction of Target Field , a Major League Baseball stadium in Minneapolis . He signed a bill mandating 20 % ethanol in gasoline by 2013 . He cut health care costs in an attempt to balance the budget , and borrowed funds from the state 's K - 12 education and low income programs . He... - FOREST (short for "Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco") is a United Kingdom political pressure group which campaigns against tobacco control activity. - Scandinavia is a historical and cultural region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages. - Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. - The Governor of Minnesota is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Minnesota, leading the state's executive branch. Forty different people have been governor of Minnesota, though historically there were also three governors of Minnesota Territory. Alexander Ramsey, the first territorial governor, also served as state governor several years later. State governors are elected to office by popular vote, but territorial governors were appointed to the office by the United States president. The current governor of Minnesota is Mark Dayton of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). - Minnesota (locally ) is a state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan "Land of 10,000 Lakes". Its official motto is "L'Etoile du Nord" (French: "Star of the North"). Minnesota is the 12th largest in area and the 21st most populous of the U.S. states; nearly 60 percent of its residents live in the MinneapolisSaint Paul metropolitan area (known as the "Twin Cities"), the center of transportation, business, industry, education, and government and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now partially cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Minnesota is known for its progressive political orientation and its high rate of civic participation and voter turnout. Until European settlement, Minnesota was inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the large majority of the European settlers emigrated from Scandinavia and Germany, and the state remains a center of Scandinavian American and German American culture. In recent decades, immigration from Asia, the Horn of Africa, and Latin America has broadened its historic demographic and cultural composition. Minnesota's standard of living index is among the highest in the United States, and the state is also among the best-educated and wealthiest in the nation. - A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). - Mark Brandt Dayton (born January 26, 1947) is an American politician who is the 40th and current Governor of Minnesota, serving since 2011. He was previously a United States Senator for Minnesota from 2001 to 2007, and the Minnesota State Auditor from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party (DFL), which affiliates with the national Democratic Party. What entity does 'tim pawlenty' has the relation 'member of political party' with?
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republican party