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Thomas Earl Emmer Jr. (born March 3, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who has served as Majority Whip in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he has represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district since 2015. Emmer is currently the nominee of the House Republican Conference for the October 2023 Speaker of the House election. Before his election to Congress, Emmer served three terms as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011. He lost the 2010 Minnesota gubernatorial election to Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party nominee Mark Dayton by less than half a percentage point.Emmer was elected to Congress in 2014, winning the 6th district seat being vacated by Michele Bachmann. He has since been reelected four times. The district includes the far western and northern suburbs of Minneapolis in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, most of the St. Cloud metropolitan area, as well as a large part of rural Central Minnesota, generally an agricultural region. Emmer chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee from 2019 to 2023. After Republicans gained a majority in the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives elections, he successfully ran for majority whip.Emmer was chosen as the Republican nominee for speaker despite a challenge from Mike Johnson. Emmer is the third candidate of the Republican Party for the office as previous nominees Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan failed to garner the required 217 votes to preside over the House.