US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

1-Jun-1849	15-May-1853	Alexander Ramsey	(1st time, b. 1815, d. 1903, Whig)
15-May-1853	23-Apr-1857	Willis Arnold Gorman	(b. 1816, d. 1876, Democrat)
23-Apr-1857	24-May-1858	Samuel Medary	(b. 1801, d. 1864, Democrat)
24-May-1858	2-Jan-1860	Henry Hastings Sibley	(b. 1811, d. 1891, Democrat)
2-Jan-1860	10-Jul-1863	Alexander Ramsey	(2nd time, Republican)
10-Jul-1863	11-Jan-1864	Henry Adoniram Swift	(b. 1823, d. 1869, Republican)
11-Jan-1864	8-Jan-1866	Stephen Miller	(b. 1816, d. 1881, Republican)
8-Jan-1866	9-Jan-1870	William Rainey Marshall	(b. 1825, d. 1896, Republican)
9-Jan-1870	7-Jan-1874	Horace Austin	(b. 1831, d. 1905, Republican)
7-Jan-1874	7-Jan-1876	Cushman Kellogg Davis	(b. 1838, d. 1900, Republican)
7-Jan-1876	10-Jan-1882	John Sargent Pillsbury	(b. 1828, d. 1901, Republican)
10-Jan-1882	5-Jan-1887	Lucius Frederick Hubbard	(b. 1836, d. 1913, Republican)
5-Jan-1887	9-Jan-1889	Andrew Ryan McGill	(b. 1840, d. 1905, Republican)
9-Jan-1889	4-Jan-1893	William Rush Merriam	(b. 1849, d. 1931, Republican)
4-Jan-1893	31-Jan-1895	Knute Nelson	(b. 1843, d. 1923, Republican)
31-Jan-1895	2-Jan-1899	David Marston Clough	(b. 1846, d. 1924, Republican)
2-Jan-1899	7-Jan-1901	John Lind	(b. 1854, d. 1930, Democrat)
7-Jan-1901	4-Jan-1905	Samuel Rinnah Van Sant	(b. 1844, d. 1936, Republican)
4-Jan-1905	21-Sep-1909	John Albert Johnson	(b. 1861, d. 1909, Democrat)
21-Sep-1909	5-Jan-1915	Adolph Olson Eberhart	(b. 1870, d. 1944, Republican)
5-Jan-1915	30-Dec-1915	Winfield Scott Hammond	(b. 1863, d. 1915, Democrat)
30-Dec-1915	5-Jan-1921	Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist	(b. 1879, d. 1961, Republican)
5-Jan-1921	6-Jan-1925	Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus	(b. 1883, d. 1961, Republican)
6-Jan-1925	6-Jan-1931	Theodore Christianson	(b. 1883, d. 1948, Republican)
6-Jan-1931	24-Aug-1936	Floyd B. Olson	(b. 1891, d. 1936, FL)
24-Aug-1936	4-Jan-1937	Hjalmar Petersen	(b. 1890, d. 1968, FL)
4-Jan-1937	2-Jan-1939	Elmer A. Benson	(b. 1895, d. 1985, FL)
2-Jan-1939	27-Apr-1943	Harold Stassen	(b. 1907, d. 2001, Republican)
27-Apr-1943	8-Jan-1947	Edward J. Thye	(b. 1896, d. 1969, Republican)
8-Jan-1947	27-Sep-1951	Luther W. Youngdahl	(b. 1896, d. 1978, Republican)
27-Sep-1951	5-Jan-1955	C. Elmer Anderson	(b. 1912, d. 1998, Republican)
5-Jan-1955	2-Jan-1961	Orville L. Freeman	(b. 1918, d. 2003, DFL)
2-Jan-1961	25-Mar-1963	Elmer L. Andersen	(b. 1909, d. 2004, Republican)
25-Mar-1963	2-Jan-1967	Karl F. Rolvaag	(b. 1913, d. 1990, DFL)
2-Jan-1967	4-Jan-1971	Harold LeVander	(b. 1910, d. 1992, Republican)
4-Jan-1971	29-Dec-1976	Wendell R. Anderson	(b. 1933, DFL)
29-Dec-1976	4-Jan-1979	Rudy Perpich	(1st time, b. 1928, d. 1995, DFL)
4-Jan-1979	3-Jan-1983	Albert H. Quie	(b. 1923, Republican)
3-Jan-1983	7-Jan-1991	Rudy Perpich	(2nd time, DFL)
7-Jan-1991	4-Jan-1999	Arne Carlson	(b. 1934, Republican)
4-Jan-1999	6-Jan-2003	Jesse Ventura	(b. 1951)
6-Jan-2003	3-Jan-2011	Tim Pawlenty	(b. 1960, Republican)
3-Jan-2011	--	Mark Dayton	(b. 1947, Democrat)

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