David Minge

David R. Minge ( born March 19, 1942 in Clarkfield, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 2001 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Minge went to 1960 Worthington High School. Then he studied until 1964 at St. Olaf College. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Chicago and its made ​​in 1967 admitted to the bar he began in Minneapolis to work in his new profession. Between 1970 and 1977 he held legal lectures at the University of Wyoming. In the meantime, he was legal adviser to a congressional subcommittee. From 1977 to 1992 practiced Minge in Montevideo ( Minnesota) as a lawyer. There he sat in the years 1989 to 1992, the School Council.

Politically, Minge joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections in 1992, he was in the second electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Vin Weber on January 3, 1993. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2001, four legislative sessions. There he sat down, inter alia, to protect the environment.

In 2000, David Minge defeated Republican Mark Kennedy. Since 2002 he has been a judge at the Court of Appeals of Minnesota. Minge is married to Karen Aaker, with whom he has two sons.