Paul Thissen
Paul Thissen is a Minnesota politician and the 58th Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and current DFL Minority Leader. A member of the Minnesota DemocraticFarmerLabor Party , he represents District 61B, which is in south Minneapolis. First elected in 2002, Thissen has been reelected every two years since.
Thissen was born in Bloomington, Minnesota. His parents, Frank and Barb Thissen, were both lifelong educators. Frank grew up on a farm in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, that the family still owns, and worked for the Saint Paul Public Schools as a teacher, counselor, and administrator. Barb worked for many years as a special education teacher for Richfield Public Schools.
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