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Minnesota's 2nd Senate district

American legislative district

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ55641088 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Minnesota Senate, District 2, encompasses the North-Central part of Minnesota. It stretches from Lake of the Woods County south to the White Earth Indian Reservation. It includes all or portions of Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Otter Tail and Wadena counties. It is currently represented by Republican Steve Green.

Current elected officials

Republican Steve Green is the senator representing the 1st district. He was first elected in 2022.

Each Minnesota State Senate district is composed of two Minnesota House of Representatives districts. The 1st district comprises House districts 1A and 1B. The current representatives of those districts are:

House District 2A: Bidal Duran (R–Princeton)

House District 2B: Matt Bliss (R–Pennington)

List of senators

References

The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1911. Minnesota Secretary of State. 1911.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Minnesota's 2nd Senate district” as american legislative district. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Minnesota's, Senate and district can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as american legislative district. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55641088. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 1911.

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This entry incorporates text from “Minnesota's 2nd Senate district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.