Tomassoni was born in the Minnesota town of Bemidji. He attended Chisholm High School in Chisholm, Minnesota, and graduated with a BSBA from the University of Denver.
David Tomassoni Net Worth At Death
On August 11, 2022, Tomassoni died of ALS at a hospice in Duluth, Minnesota. At the time of his death, David Tomassoni’s net worth was estimated at about $5 million.
From 2007 to 2010, Tomassoni was the chairman of the Senate Economic Development Committee. He then co-chaired the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) and chaired the Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB) four times. In addition, Tomassoni served as vice chair of the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission.
Tomassoni played professional hockey in Italy for 16 years and represented Italy in the 1984 Winter Olympics.
On November 12, 2020, Tomassoni was elected president of the Minnesota Senate, in a rare instance in which the Senate’s Republican majority supported a DFL member for Senate president. The move was viewed as strategic, given the possibility of losing the Senate’s slim Republican majority if the Senate President became lieutenant governor.