Amy Klobuchar elected Minnesota’s first woman governor

By: Michelle Griffith

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: November 4, 2026

Words: 1,207

Last Updated: 5 days, 17 hours ago

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Amy Jean Klobuchar became the first woman elected Hennepin County attorney in 1998, the first woman U.S. senator from Minnesota in 2006, and on Tuesday she became the first woman to be elected Minnesota’s governor.

Klobuchar, 66, prevailed over Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth as Democrats secured the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s hold on the governor’s office for a fifth consecutive term.

As a U.S. senator for 20 years, a 2020 presidential candidate and …

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