High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Saxhaug (born February 22, 1948) is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 3, which includes portions of Aitkin, Itasca, Koochiching and Lake of the Woods counties in the northern part of the state. A Democrat, he was first elected in 2002, and was re-elected in 2006 and 2010.