Emily Anne Staples Tuttle was born May 3, 1929, in Minneapolis to Frank and Emily (Dunn) Mayer. She was awarded a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1950 and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Initially involved in Republican Party politics, she switched to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1973, ran unsuccessfully as the DFL endorsed candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1974, and was elected to the Minnesota State Senate from District 43 (suburban Hennepin County) in 1976. She served in the Senate until 1981. She ran unsuccessfully for the DFL nomination for Lieutenant Governor with Mike Hatch in 1990.
Tuttle served on numerous national, state and local boards and commissions and was an elected member of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners from 1993 to 1995.
In 1954 she married Loring M. Staples, Jr. who died in 1988. In 1995 she married Gedney Tuttle.
From the guide to the Emily Anne Staples Tuttle papers., 1958-circa 2000., (Minnesota Historical Society)
