Republican · Minnesota's 8th District · 2026
Pete Stauber
Stauber captained a college hockey team to a national championship before playing in the Detroit Red Wings organization and becoming a Duluth police officer.
Biography
Pete Stauber played on Lake Superior State University's 1988 national championship hockey team before playing in the Detroit Red Wings' minor league system.1 He and his wife, Jodi, an Iraq War veteran, have six children and live in Hermantown.1 Jodi was the first woman to serve as command chief of the 148th Fighter Wing.2 He grew up in Duluth and attended Denfeld High School.2
After graduating from Lake Superior State in 1990 and finishing his professional hockey career, Stauber returned to Minnesota and joined the Duluth Police Department.1 He rose to lieutenant and held police union leadership roles.1 He spent more than two decades with the department.2 He also served on the Hermantown City Council and the St. Louis County Commission, holding the county position from 2013 to 2019.1
Stauber was elected to Congress in 2018.1 His current committee assignments are Transportation and Infrastructure, Small Business, and Natural Resources.2 He chairs the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, emphasizing domestic energy production and reducing reliance on foreign minerals.2
He sponsored H.J.Res. 140, which President Trump signed in April 2026 to overturn a 20 year federal restriction on mineral leasing across about 225,500 acres of national forest land in northern Minnesota.3.4 He has also supported stronger backing for police and domestic mineral development.2