What party was Paul Wellstone, the Minnesota United States Senator, and the person The Wellstone Action group, the 501(c)(4) advocacy organization named for, from?
Paul Wellstone Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an American academic and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002. A member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wellstone was a leader of the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party.
Paul Overgaard Paul Overgaard (born February 13, 1930) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represented District 9(present-day district 27) in the Senate and 9A(present-day district 27A) in the House, which includes portions of Freeborn and Waseca counties in the southeastern part of Minnesota.