Title: Politics of Minnesota - Wikipedia
Headings: Politics of Minnesota
Politics of Minnesota
Contents
Long-term trends
Historical figures of note
John Pillsbury
Frank Kellogg
Floyd B. Olson
Harold Stassen
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
Orville Freeman
Walter Mondale
Paul Wellstone
Jesse Ventura
Historically progressive
Third party movements
Law and government
Legislature
Executive
Judiciary
Regional government
Federal representation
Gallery of members of the U.S. Senate
Gallery of members of the U.S. House of Representatives
See also
References
External links

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Historian Annette Atkins has explored the changing long-term pattern of Minnesota politics. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the heavily rural state was hostile to business and railroads, with the Republicans dominant in the small towns, and the Democrats on the farms. Numerous left-wing groups and third-parties emerged, such as the Anti-Monopolist party in the 1870s, the Populists in the 1890s, the Non-Partisan League in the 1910s, and the Farmer–Labor party in the 1930s. Isolationism was strong, Adkins argues, because of the fear that Eastern bankers and industrialists forced the United States into World War I to enlarge their profits. Business fought unions, and the unions fought back, and with the governor on their side unions won some violent battles in the 1930s. In recent decades, however, the liberal coalition has weakened. Labor unions are a shadow of their old strength. Most farmers have left for the towns and especially the Twin Cities, where half the people live.