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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Chapters: St. Olaf College alumni, Satveer Chaudhary, Robert Bly, Erik Paulsen, Kenneth Jennings, John Marty, G. N. Glasoe, Robert Jenson, Ole Edvart Rølvaag, John Raymond Ylitalo, Dale Warland, David Minge, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, René Clausen, J. B. Van Hollen, Kim Elton, Herbert Krause, Frank Pooler, Roger Grimsby, Anton Armstrong, Gretchen Morgenson, Olaf M. Norlie, Steve Sviggum, Theodore Marcus Hansen, Mary Stanton, Siri Hustvedt, Einar Haugen, Mark W. Olson, Al Quie, John L. Helgerson, Ernest O. Melby, Arlen Erdahl, Raymond Cox, David Grose, Timothy Mahr, Johan Andreas Holvik, Randolph Edgar Haugan, Kenneth O. Bjork, David Bly, Martin E. Marty, Andrew Volstead, F. Melius Christiansen, Carlton C. Qualey, Anantanand Rambachan, Deborah Arnie Arnesen, Herman Amberg Preus, Russell A. Anderson, Bernt Julius Muus, Ingebrikt Grose, Johan Arnd Aasgaard, Stuart E. Barstad, Lloyd Hustvedt, August H. Andresen, Carol J. Oja, Martha Nause, Andrew Kuster, Rebecca Wee, Jason DeRose, Fredrik A. Schiotz, Dan Hill, Sam Hanson, John Ferguson, Joan N. Ericksen, Dean Buntrock, Bruce Laingen, Harold Hagen, Lynn Steen, David Boe, Mark Kilstofte, Bradley Ellingboe, Matthew E. Johnson, Arthur E. Thompson, Mai Neng Moua, Carl Schroeder, Tom Fiebiger, George L. Kelling, Opie Otterstad, Richard Toensing, Kristine Gebbie, Peg Kerr, George Thompson, Catherine Rodland, Harry Haines, J. Arthur Seebach, Jr., Ian C. Kelly, Chris Raschka. Excerpt: Satveer Singh Chaudhary (born June 12, 1969) is an American politician and a former member of the Minnesota State Senate who represented District 50, which includes portions of Anoka and Ramsey counties in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He was the first South Asian American to hold an elected office in Minnesota, and also one of the youngest senators in the history of that state. On August 10, 2010, Chaudhary was defeated by former Rep. Barbara Goodwin in the Minnesota primary election, receiving 30.09% of the total votes. He left office on January 4, 2011, when his successor was sworn in. With his departure, and the 2010 retirements of Senator Mee Moua and Representative Cy Thao, there are no individuals of Asian descent currently serving in the Minnesota Legislature. Chaudhary was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1969 to Jat ethnicity parents from Haryana, India. He grew up in Fridley, Minnesota where in 1987 he graduated from Columbia Heights High School. He received his B.A. from St. Olaf College in Political Science, and then proceeded to Oxford University where he studied British and American foreign policy. Chaudhary continued his studies in law at the University of Minnesota Law School where he received his J.D. Satveer Chaudhary was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1996, defeating Republican candidate Dan Coughlin and netting 53% of the vote. When he was elected State Representative, Chaudhary became the first Asian-American member of the Minnesota Legislature, and only the fourth Asian-Indian elected to a state legislature in the United States. While in the House, he made expansion of healthcare access a priority. He also worked on environmental legislation and financial reform of the Minnesota State Lottery system. He was a member of the Police Officers Alliance of Minnesota and the Minnesota Conservation Federation. When he joined the Senate in 2000 at age 31