Steve Sviggum

Steve Sviggum
State Representative Steve Sviggum
56th Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
In office
January 5, 1999 – January 3, 2007
Preceded byPhil Carruthers
Succeeded byMargaret Anderson Kelliher
Minnesota House Minority Leader
In office
April 17, 1992 – January 5, 1999
Preceded byTerry Dempsey
Succeeded byTom Pugh
Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
from the 28B, 26A, 25A district
In office
January 3, 1979 – July 17, 2007
Preceded byJames F. White
Succeeded bySteve Drazkowski
Personal details
Born (1951-09-15) September 15, 1951 (age 73)
Minnesota
Political partyIndependent-Republican
Republican
SpouseDebra
Children3
ResidenceKenyon, Minnesota
Alma materSt. Olaf College
ProfessionEducator, farmer, regent, legislator

Steven A. Sviggum is a Minnesota politician, a former member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, and an executive assistant to and communications director for the Republican caucus in the Minnesota Senate.[1] A former Speaker and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Sviggum represented District 28B in the southeastern part of the state. The area was known as District 25A until the 1982 legislative redistricting, and then as District 26A until the 1992 redistricting, and has included all or portions of Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca and Winona counties.[2]

  1. ^ Senate GOP taps Sviggum as communications chief
  2. ^ "Sviggum, Steven A. "Steve" - Legislator Record - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present".