Peter Stauber
Republican Representative of Minnesota's 8th district
Representative
Minnesota, district 8
January 3, 2019 - January 3, 2021
Representative
Minnesota, district 8
January 3, 2021 - January 3, 2023
Representative
Minnesota, district 8
January 3, 2023 - January 3, 2025
3
Congresses Served
3
House Terms
May 10, 1966 (58 years old)
Birthday
- Former professional hockey player and retired law enforcement officer
- Served as a United States representative since 2019
- Played college hockey and led his team to a national championship in 1988
- Met President Ronald Reagan, which influenced his political ambition
- Brief career in professional hockey, including being drafted in the NHL Expansion Draft
- Served as a lieutenant in the Duluth Police Department, where he was shot on duty
- Served as a county commissioner in St. Louis County, Minnesota
- Defeated a Democratic nominee in the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections
- Represents a working-class and mostly rural district
- Co-owns a company that received over $86,000 in bailout funds from the Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Criticized for attempts to block the nomination of Deb Haaland as United States Secretary of the Interior
- Voted against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act but takes credit for supporting the project’s funding
- Supported by Donald Trump in his 2018 campaign for U.S. Representative
- Filed a motion to support Texas v. Pennsylvania, aiming to invalidate millions of votes in the 2020 presidential election
- Held a Bipartisan Index Score of 0.7 in the 116th United States Congress
- Violated Delta’s rules by flying after interacting with people who tested positive for COVID-19
- Signed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election
- Committee assignments include Natural Resources, Small Business, and Transportation and Infrastructure
- Member of several caucuses, including the Law Enforcement Caucus and the Congressional Steel Caucus
- Of German ancestry, lives in Hermantown, and is a member of the St. Lawrence Catholic Church