2nd Minnesota Territorial Legislature

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! colspan=2 | Party{{#tag:ref|Known party affiliations taken from the members' profiles in [https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/ Minnesota Legislators Past & Present].|name="affiliations"|group="nb"}}

! rowspan=3 | Total

! rowspan=3 | Vacant

| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" |

| style="background-color:{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}" |

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! colspan=3 | Party

! rowspan=3 | Total

! rowspan=3 | Vacant

| style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}" |

| style="background-color:{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}" |

| style="background-color:{{party color|Unknown Party (United States)}}" |

! Name

! District

! City

! Party

| Boal, James McClellan

| 03

| St. Paul

| Whig

| Burkleo, Samuel

| 02

| Stillwater

| Whig{{#tag:ref|Minnesota Legislators Past & Present does not provide information on Samuel Burkleo's party affiliation; however, Samuel Burkleo signed on to an open letter from the Whig members of the legislature published in The Minnesota Pioneer newspaper{{Cite news|date=13 February 1851|title=Circular of the Whig Members of the Legislature in Relation to the Disposition of the Public Printing|work=The Minnesota Pioneer|url=https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83025241/1851-02-13/ed-1/seq-1|access-date=2 May 2020}} which would imply that Burkleo was a Whig.|name="burkleo_party"|group="nb"}}

| Forbes, William Henry

| 03

| Saint Paul

| Democratic

| Loomis, David B.

| 04

| Marine

| Whig

| Martin McLeod

| 07

| Bloomington

| Democratic{{#tag:ref|Minnesota Legislators Past & Present does not provide information on Martin McLeod's party affiliation; however, it has been documented that McLeod was a close political ally of Democratic future-Governor Henry Hastings Sibley,{{cite web |url=http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/m0164.pdf |title=Guide to a Microfilm Edition of The Henry Hastings Sibley Papers |last=Davis |first=Jane Spector |year=1968 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |location=St. Paul |page=15 |access-date=15 November 2016 |

quote=... Three of Sibley's fur trade associates—Joseph R. Brown, William H. Forbes, and Martin McLeod—were now his political allies ... }} which fact would imply that McLeod was a Democrat.|name="mcleod_party"|group="nb"}}

| Norris, James S.

| 01

| Cottage Grove

| Democratic

| Olmsted, David

| 06

| Long Prairie

| Democratic

| Rollins, John

| 05

| Saint Anthony Falls

| Democratic

| Sturgis, William R.

| 06

| Elk River

| Democratic

! Name

! District

! City

! Party

| Ames, Michael E.

| 02

| Stillwater

| Democratic

| Brunson, Benjamin Wetherill

| 03

| Saint Paul

| Whig

| Faribault, Alexander

| 07

| Mendota

| Unknown

| Ford, John A.

| 01

| Woodbury

| Democratic

| Gilman, David

| 06

| Watab

| Democratic

| Ludden, John Dwight

| 04

| Marine

| Whig{{#tag:ref|Minnesota Legislators Past & Present does not provide information on John D. Ludden's party affiliation; however, Ludden signed on to an open letter from the Whig members of the legislature published in The Minnesota Pioneer newspaper{{Cite news|date=13 February 1851|title=Circular of the Whig Members of the Legislature in Relation to the Disposition of the Public Printing|work=The Minnesota Pioneer|url=https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83025241/1851-02-13/ed-1/seq-1|access-date=2 May 2020}} which would imply that Ludden was a Whig.|name="ludden_party"|group="nb"}}

| North, John Wesley

| 05

| Saint Anthony Falls

| Whig

| Olmstead, Samuel Baldwin

| 06

| Belle Prairie

| Democratic

| Patch, Edward M.

| 05

| Saint Anthony Falls

| Unknown

| Ramsey, Justus Cornelius

| 03

| Saint Paul

| Whig

| Randall, Benjamin H.

| 07

| Fort Snelling

| Democratic

| Rice, Edmund

| 03

| Saint Paul

| Democratic

| Sloan, David T.

| 06

| Buckman

| Whig{{#tag:ref|Minnesota Legislators Past & Present does not provide information on David T. Sloan's party affiliation; however, Sloan signed on to an open letter from the Whig members of the legislature published in The Minnesota Pioneer newspaper{{Cite news|date=13 February 1851|title=Circular of the Whig Members of the Legislature in Relation to the Disposition of the Public Printing|work=The Minnesota Pioneer|url=https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83025241/1851-02-13/ed-1/seq-1|access-date=2 May 2020}} which would imply that Sloan was a Whig.|name="sloan_party"|group="nb"}}

| Taylor, Jesse

| 02

| Stillwater

| Whig{{#tag:ref|Minnesota Legislators Past & Present does not provide information on Jesse Taylor's party affiliation; however, Taylor signed on to an open letter from the Whig members of the legislature published in The Minnesota Pioneer newspaper{{Cite news|date=13 February 1851|title=Circular of the Whig Members of the Legislature in Relation to the Disposition of the Public Printing|work=The Minnesota Pioneer|url=https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83025241/1851-02-13/ed-1/seq-1|access-date=2 May 2020}} which would imply that Taylor was a Whig.|name="taylor_party"|group="nb"}}

| Tilden, Henry L.

| 03

| Saint Paul

| Whig{{#tag:ref|Minnesota Legislators Past & Present does not provide information on Henry L. Tilden's party affiliation; however, Tilden signed on to an open letter from the Whig members of the legislature published in The Minnesota Pioneer newspaper{{Cite news|date=13 February 1851|title=Circular of the Whig Members of the Legislature in Relation to the Disposition of the Public Printing|work=The Minnesota Pioneer|url=https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83025241/1851-02-13/ed-1/seq-1|access-date=2 May 2020}} which would imply that Tilden was a Whig.|name="tilden_party"|group="nb"}}

| Trask, Sylvanus

| 02

| Stillwater

| Democratic

| Warren, William Whipple

| 06

| Crow Wing

| Unknown

| Wells, James

| 01

| Lake City

| Democratic

! District

! Vacated by

! Reason for change

! Successor

! Date successor
seated

| nowrap {{party shading/Democratic}} | John A. Ford
(D)

| Resigned on March 29, 1851, along with six other members of the House of Representatives, in protest of the 1851 reapportionment bill, arguing that the census count was incorrect.{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=12855|title=Ford, John A.|work=Legislators Past & Present|publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=10 November 2016}}

| colspan="2" | Remained vacant

| nowrap {{party shading/Democratic}} | David Gilman
(D)

| Resigned on March 29, 1851, along with six other members of the House of Representatives, in protest of the 1851 reapportionment bill, arguing that the census count was incorrect.{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=13009|title=Gilman, David "Daniel"|work=Legislators Past & Present|publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=10 November 2016}}

| colspan="2" | Remained vacant

| nowrap {{party shading/Whig}} | John W. North
(W)

| Resigned on March 29, 1851, along with six other members of the House of Representatives, in protest of the 1851 reapportionment bill, arguing that the census count was incorrect.{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=14203|title=North, John Wesley|work=Legislators Past & Present|publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=10 November 2016}}

| colspan="2" | Remained vacant

| nowrap {{party shading/Unknown}} | Edward M. Patch
(?)

| Resigned on March 29, 1851, along with six other members of the House of Representatives, in protest of the 1851 reapportionment bill, arguing that the census count was incorrect.{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=14248|title=Patch, Edward M.|work=Legislators Past & Present|publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=10 November 2016}}

| colspan="2" | Remained vacant

| nowrap {{party shading/Democratic}} | Edmund Rice
(D)

| Resigned on March 29, 1851, along with six other members of the House of Representatives, in protest of the 1851 reapportionment bill, arguing that the census count was incorrect.{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=14501|title=Rice, Edmund|work=Legislators Past & Present|publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=10 November 2016}}

| colspan="2" | Remained vacant

| nowrap {{party shading/Unknown}} | David T. Sloan
(?)

| Resigned on March 29, 1851, along with six other members of the House of Representatives, in protest of the 1851 reapportionment bill, arguing that the census count was incorrect.{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=15287|title=Sloan, David T. "D.T."|work=Legislators Past & Present|publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=10 November 2016}}

| colspan="2" | Remained vacant

| nowrap {{party shading/Unknown}} | William Whipple Warren
(?)

| Resigned on March 29, 1851, along with six other members of the House of Representatives, in protest of the 1851 reapportionment bill, arguing that the census count was incorrect.{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=11997|title=Warren, William Whipple|work=Legislators Past & Present|publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=10 November 2016}}

| colspan="2" | Remained vacant