Attorney General — Minnesota
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What this office is
The Attorney General of Minnesota is the state’s lawyer. One office. The whole state. The term is four years. The next regular election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Confirm the clock, and the Attorney General of record, on official Minnesota sites. This office has no term limit — that is a clock fact, not a crown.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of Minnesota. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a county attorney. This office is the lawyer for Minnesota.
Saint Paul is the capital, under the marble dome. Minneapolis is across the river. Two cities. That still does not make the Twin Cities the map. Eighty-seven counties hire the same Attorney General — the Iron Range, the Boundary Waters, Duluth, prairie counties, Rochester, and the northwoods included.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on ag.state.mn.us.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from Saint Paul that is not a Minneapolis skyline, an Iron Range consumer file that never makes a national broadcast, a Boundary Waters and lake file, a prairie drought file, and a public-integrity file that is not a Hennepin County docket.
Staff who only know Minneapolis, or only know Saint Paul as the whole state, are not doing the job. Wisconsin is a different state. Iowa is a different state. The Dakotas are different states. Canada is not this map. The Range remains Minnesota.
What the job entails
- Represent the state. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where Minnesota law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every county attorney’s case.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files.
- Two homes. Saint Paul for the job. The rest of the state for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Minnesota · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on ag.state.mn.us
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a county attorney.
- Not a United States Senator (Class II is 2026).
- Not the Mayor of Minneapolis. Not the Mayor of Saint Paul.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
- Office of the Attorney General
- Minnesota Secretary of State
- Office of the Attorney General of Minnesota