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Portrait of Tad Jude
The Minnesota Legislature · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Tad Jude

VecD 47 · HeldTenD 95%Att61

Tad Jude is a Republican candidate for Secretary of State in MN in the 2026 election.

American politician & lawyer (born 1951)

Secretary of State — MNRepublicanRunning nowVugol ID VM-GPV-2BWX FEC H0MN06051

Running for Secretary of State, MN, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/tad-jude

Roster source: Wikipedia (secondary source) (2026-09-24)

Tad Jude — Photo
Photo · The Minnesota Legislature · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Tad Jude — Photo
Photo · The Minnesota Legislature · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Tad Jude — Illustration · Vugol.me
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Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from The Minnesota Legislature · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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  • 2026 · Secretary of State, MN · General · Republican · on the ballot · source
  • 2026 · Secretary of State, MN · Primary · Republican · won · source
  • 2024 · U.S. House, MN-03 · Primary · Republican · result not on file · source

Background

Thaddeus Victor Jude is an American politician and lawyer from Minnesota. A member of the Republican Party, Jude was a candidate in the 2022 Minnesota Attorney General election but withdrew and endorsed Jim Schultz on May 13, 2022, after being eliminated at…

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the convention. He then ran for Hennepin County Attorney that same year, finishing fourth in the primary.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-09 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Jude

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  • Portrait — The Minnesota Legislature · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons (file page)
  • Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-09 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Jude
  • Roster — Wikipedia (secondary source) — https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2026_Minnesota_Secretary_of_State_election&oldid=1376039511
  • photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tad_Jude.jpg
  • photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Tad_Jude.jpg

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