List of Minnesota Senate Majority Leaders

This is a list of Majority Leaders of the Minnesota Senate

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party/Caucus
Charles N. Orr	1933	1949	Conservative
Archie H. Miller	1949	1959	Conservative
John M. Zwach	1959	1967	Conservative
Stanley W. Holmquist	1967	1973	Conservative
Nick Coleman	1973	1981	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Roger Moe	1981	2003	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
John Hottinger	2003	2004	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Dean Johnson	2004	2007	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Larry Pogemiller	2007	2011	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Amy Koch	2011	present	Republican

Notes on Minnesota political party names

• Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: On April 15, 1944 the state Democratic Party and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party merged and created the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). It is affiliated with the national Democratic Party.

• Republican Party of Minnesota: From November 15, 1975 to September 23, 1995 the name of the state Republican party was the Independent-Republican party (I-R). The party has always been affiliated with the national Republican Party.

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 1976, Senate members again ran with party designation.