Peggy Flanagan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peggy Flanagan

50th and current Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1979

Place of Birth: St. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Peggy Flanagan (born September 22, 1979) is the 50th and current lieutenant governor of Minnesota.
Her election on November 6, 2018, made her the second Native American woman to ever be elected to statewide executive office in U.S.
history.
She served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represented District 46A in the western Twin Cities metropolitan area.
A member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe she joined fellow DFLer Susan Allen, (Rosebud Sioux) and Republican Steve Green, an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe as the only other Natives in the Minnesota State House. On July 28, 2016, Flanagan became the first Native American woman to address the Democratic National Convention (or any convention of a major party), from the podium.Flanagan has worked on issues relating to education and political organizing for urban Native Americans in Minneapolis, Minnesota, through the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches.
Elected to the city's School Board, she served from 2005 to 2009.