Chris Swedzinski (/swəzɪnski/;[1] born May 10, 1978) is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2011.
A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, Swedzinski represents District 15A in southwest Minnesota, which includes the city of Marshall, the counties of Lac qui Parle, Lyon and Yellow Medicine, and parts of Chippewa County.
He served as a district representative for former U.S. Representative Mark Kennedy for five years, and also worked as a Rural Development Specialist for the United States Department of Agriculture, designing and facilitating outreach plans and strategies for rural businesses and renewable energy efforts.
He ran on a platform of cutting taxes, reducing the size of government, and empowering the individual.
[4] Swedzinski was an assistant majority leader during the 2015-16 legislative session, and chaired the Subcommittee on Mining, Forestry, & Tourism, a subcommittee of the Environment & Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee, in 2017-18.