Will Morgan is a Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 politician

Politician

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 and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives

Minnesota House of Representatives

The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B...

 who represented District 40A, which includes portions of Dakota

Dakota County, Minnesota

Dakota County is the third most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The county is bordered by the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers on the north, and the state of Wisconsin on the east. Dakota County comprises the southeast portion of seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul, the thirteenth...

 and Scott

Scott County, Minnesota

Scott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It was organized in 1853 and named in honor of General Winfield Scott. As of 2010, the population was 129,928. Its county seat is Shakopee...

 counties in the southern Twin Cities

Twin cities

Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time...

 metropolitan area.

A Democrat

Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party is a major political party in the state of Minnesota and the state affiliate of the Democratic Party. It was created on April 15, 1944, with the merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Farmer–Labor Party...

, Morgan was first elected in 2006, defeating incumbent Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 Rep. Duke Powell. He was re-elected in 2008, but was unseated by Republican Pam Myhra

Pam Myhra

Pamela J. "Pam" Myhra is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represents District 40A, which includes portions of Dakota and Scott counties in the southern Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Republican, she is also a certified public accountant by...

 in the 2010 general election. While in the House, he served on the Governmental Operations, Reform, Technology and Elections Committee, and on the Finance subcommittees for the Education Finance and Economic Competitiveness K-12 Finance Division, the Housing Policy and Finance and Public Health Finance Division, the Transportation Finance Division, the Cultural and Outdoor Resources Finance Division, and the Housing Finance and Policy and Public Health Finance Division.

Morgan is a physics teacher at Burnsville High School

Burnsville High School

Burnsville High School is a three-year public high school located in Burnsville, Minnesota. The school is part of Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191, which covers most of Burnsville, as well as parts of the surrounding cities Savage and Eagan, and small parts of Shakopee and Apple Valley...

 in Burnsville

Burnsville, Minnesota

Burnsville is a city south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies on the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from the confluence with the Mississippi River...

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