John Benson (Minnesota politician)
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John H. Benson is Minnesota
politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
, representing District 43B, which includes portions of western Hennepin County
in the Twin Cities
metropolitan area.
A Democrat
, Benson was first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2008 and 2010.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Minnesota House of Representatives
The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B...
, representing District 43B, which includes portions of western Hennepin County
Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hennepin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota, named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin. As of 2010 the population was 1,152,425. Its county seat is Minneapolis. It is by far the most populous county in Minnesota; more than one in five Minnesotans live...
in the Twin Cities
Twin cities
Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time...
metropolitan area.
A Democrat
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party is a major political party in the state of Minnesota and the state affiliate of the Democratic Party. It was created on April 15, 1944, with the merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Farmer–Labor Party...
, Benson was first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2008 and 2010.
External links
- Rep. John Benson's Web Page
- Minnesota Legislative Reference Library - John Benson
- Minnesota Public Radio - Votetracker: John Benson's voting record
- Project Vote Smart - Profile of Rep. John H. Benson (MN)
- Follow the Money - John Benson campaign contributions 2006 2004