Margaret Anderson Kelliher (born March 11, 1968) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A Democrat, she represented District 60A, which includes portions of the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, located in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. First elected in 1999, she served as the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2007–2011. She was also the DFL-endorsed candidate in the 2010 gubernatorial election. She is the second woman (after Dee Long) to hold the position of House speaker, and the first woman to earn major-party endorsement for a gubernatorial election in Minnesota.
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