List of Governors of Minnesota

Table of contents

1 Territory Governors 2 State Governors 3 References

Territory Governors

• 1849-1853 Alexander Ramsey (Whig)
• 1853-1857 Willis Arnold Gorman (Democrat)
• 1857-1858 Samuel Medary (D)

• 1858-1860 Henry Hastings Sibley (D)
• 1860-1863 Alexander Ramsey (Republican)
• 1863-1864 Henry Adoniram Swift (R)
• 1864-1866 Stephen Miller (R)
• 1866-1870 William Raine Marshall (R)
• 1870-1874 Horace Austin (R)
• 1874-1876 Cushman Davis (R)
• 1876-1882 John Sargent Pillsbury (R)
• 1882-1887 Lucius Frederick Hubbard (R)
• 1887-1889 Andrew Ryan McGill (R)
• 1889-1893 William Rush Merriam (R)
• 1893-1895 Knute Nelson (R)
• 1895-1899 David Marston Clough (R)
• 1899-1901 John Lind (Populist/Democratic Silver Republican)
• 1901-1905 Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (R)
• 1905-1909 John Albert Johnson (D)
• 1909-1915 Adolph Olson Eberhart (R)
• 1915-1915 Winfield Scott Hammond (D)
• 1915-1921 Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist (R)
• 1921-1925 Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus (R)
• 1925-1931 Theodore Christianson (R)
• 1931-1936 Floyd B. Olson (Farmer-Labor)
• 1936-1937 Hjalmar Petersen (FL)
• 1937-1939 Elmer Austin Benson (FL)
• 1939-1943 Harold Stassen (R)
• 1943-1947 Edward John Thye (R)
• 1947-1951 Luther Wallace Youngdahl (R)
• 1951-1955 Clyde Elmer Anderson (R)
• 1955-1961 Orville Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
• 1961-1963 Elmer Lee Andersen (R)
• 1963-1967 Karl Fritjof Rolvaag (DFL)
• 1967-1971 Harold R LeVander (R)
• 1971-1976 Wendell Anderson (DFL)
• 1976-1979 Rudy Perpich (DFL)
• 1979-1983 Al Quie (Independent-Republican)
• 1983-1991 Rudy Perpich (DFL)
• 1991-1999 Arne Carlson (IR/R)
• 1999-2003 Jesse Ventura (James George Janos) (Reform/Independence)
• 2003-present Tim Pawlenty (R)

• The Governor's Office and History, accessed February 12, 2004.