Minnesota Territory's at-large congressional district
Before statehood, Minnesota Territory sent a non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
List of delegates representing the district
Delegate | Party | Years | Cong ress |
Electoral history |
---|---|---|---|---|
District created | March 3, 1849 | |||
![]() Henry Hastings Sibley |
Democratic | July 7, 1849 – March 3, 1853 |
31st 32nd |
Elected in 1849 and seated December 3, 1849. Re-elected in 1850. Retired. |
![]() Henry Mower Rice |
Democratic | March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857 |
33rd 34th |
Elected in 1852. Re-elected in 1854. Retired. |
William W. Kingsbury | Democratic | March 4, 1857 – May 11, 1858 |
35th | Elected in 1856. Retired when district eliminated. |
District eliminated | May 11, 1858 |
Elimination upon statehood
The seat was eliminated after Minnesota was admitted to the Union. Western portions of the territory fell unorganized until re-organization in the Dakota Territory in 1861.
gollark: If the government throws piles of money at free education, you would, presumably, eventually get the majority of people going through university or something. Which would be nice, if it did not also cost a vast amount of money. And at the same time you dilute... whatever the degree is supposed to represent... and I don't really know what happens.
gollark: But that university has basically no incentive to have reasonable prices.
gollark: I said "many", not "all".
gollark: The government throwing money at it will not make that better.
gollark: In many cases you just need to have *a degree* of some sort, even if it's completely pointless, because it shows... that you have the patience to do a thing for 4 years or something??
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