Tom Earl Emmer Jr. (R-MN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American attorney and politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district since January 2015. Emmer served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2005 until 2011 and was the Republican nominee for governor in the 2010 election. Emmer graduated from Boston College, University of Alaska Fairbanks (BA), William Mitchell College of Law (JD).