Peggy Flanagan is an American politician and Ojibwe activist who is the United States senator-elect from Minnesota. She has served 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 first Native American woman elected to the Senate in U.S. history.
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.
Flanagan has advocated for Medicare for All, abolishing and replacing ICE, blocking military aid and arms sales to Israel, and for universal childcare.
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