Peggy Flanagan

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Margaret Ann Hartmann Flanagan (Ojibwe: Gizhiiwewidamookwe; born September 22, 1979) is an American politician and Ojibwe activist serving since 2019 as the 50th lieutenant governor of Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Flanagan served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. She is the Democratic nominee for US Senate in the 2026 Minnesota U.S. Senate race. Flanagan grew up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis. She is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. She started her political career as an organizer for the urban Native American community. From 2005 to 2009, Flanagan served as an elected member of the Minneapolis Public Schools Board. In 2015, she was elected to the Minnesota House, representing a section of Minneapolis's western inner-ring suburbs. In 2018, Flanagan was elected lieutenant governor as Tim Walz's running mate. They were reelected in 2022. As of 2020, Walz described Flanagan as his...

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