Governors of Minnesota, 1857-2012 (May be
incomplete!)
Henry
H. Sibley 1858-60
Alexander
Ramsey 1860-63
Henry
A. Swift 1863-64
Stephen
Miller 1864-66
William
R. Marshall 1866-70
Horace
Austin 1870-74
Cushman
K. Davis 1874-76
John
S. Pillsbury 1876-82
Lucius
F. Hubbard 1882-87
Andrew
Ryan McGill 1887-89
William
R. Merriam 1889-93
Knute
Nelson 1893-95
David
M. Clough 1895-99
John
Lind 1899-1901
Samuel
R. Van Sant 1901-05
Albert
Johnson 1905-09
Adolph
O. Eberhart 1909-15
Winfield
S. Hammond 1915
J.
A. A. Burnquist 1915-21
Jacob
A. O. Preus 1921-25
Theodore
Christianson 1925-31
Floyd
B. Olson 1931-36
Hjalmar
Petersen 1936-37
Elmer
A. Benson 1937-39
Harold
E. Stassen 1939-43
Edward
J. Thye 1943-47
Luther
W. Youngdahl 1947-51
C.
Elmer Anderson 1951-55
Orville
L. Freeman 1955-61
Elmer
L. Andersen 1961-63
Karl
F. Rolvaag 1963-67
Harold
LeVander 1967-71
Wendell
R. Anderson 1971-76
Rudy
Perpich 1976-79
Albert
H. Quie 1979-83
Rudy
Perpich 1983-91
Arne
H. Carlson 1991-99
Jesse
Ventura 1999-2003
Tim
Pawlenty 2003-
Mark
Dayton 2011-
Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)
1857 Oct 13:
Henry
H. Sibley (Dem), elected;
Alexander
Ramsey (Rep), defeated.
1859:
Alexander
Ramsey (Rep), elected;
George
L. Becker (Dem), defeated.
1861:
Alexander
Ramsey (Rep), elected;
E.
O. Hamblin (Dem), defeated.
1863:
Stephen
Miller (Rep), elected;
Henry
T. Welles (Dem), defeated.
1865:
William
R. Marshall (Rep), elected;
Henry
M. Rice (Dem), defeated.
1867:
William
R. Marshall (Rep), elected;
Charles
E. Flandrau (Dem), defeated.
1869:
Horace
Austin (Rep), elected;
George
L. Otis (Dem), defeated;
Daniel
Cobb (Prohibition), defeated.
1870:
Abner
Lewis (Temperance), defeated.
1871:
Horace
Austin (Rep), elected;
Winthrop
Young (Dem), defeated;
Samuel
Mayall (Prohibition), defeated.
1873:
Cushman
K. Davis (Rep), elected;
Ara
Barton (Dem), defeated;
Samuel
Mayall (Prohibition), defeated.
1875:
John
S. Pillsbury (Rep), elected;
David
L. Buell (Dem), defeated;
R.
F. Humiston, defeated.
1877:
John
S. Pillsbury (Rep), elected;
William
L. Banning (Dem), defeated;
William
Meigher, defeated.
1879:
John
S. Pillsbury (Rep), elected;
Edmund
Rice (Dem), defeated.
1881:
Lucius
F. Hubbard (Rep), elected;
Richard
W. Johnson (Dem), defeated.
1883:
Lucius
F. Hubbard (Rep), elected;
Adolph
Biermann (Dem), defeated.
1886 Nov 2:
Andrew
Ryan McGill (Rep), elected;
Albert
A. Ames (Dem), defeated;
James
E. Child, defeated.
1888 Nov 6:
William
R. Merriam (Rep), elected;
Eugene
M. Wilson (Dem), defeated;
Hugh
G. Harrison (Prohibition), defeated.
1890 Nov 4:
William
R. Merriam (Rep), elected;
Thomas
Wilson (Dem), defeated;
Sidney
M. Owen (Alliance), defeated;
James
P. Pinkham (Prohibition), defeated.
1892 Nov 8:
Knute
Nelson (Rep), elected;
Daniel
W. Lawler (Dem), defeated;
Ignatius
L. Donnelly (People's), defeated;
William
J. Dean (Prohibition), defeated.
1894 Nov 6:
Knute
Nelson (Rep), elected;
Sidney
M. Owen (People's), defeated;
George
L. Becker (Dem), defeated;
Hans
S. Hilleboe (Prohibition), defeated.
1896 Nov 3:
David
M. Clough (Rep), elected;
John
Lind (Dem), defeated;
William
J. Dean (Prohibition), defeated;
Albert
A. Ames (Ind), defeated;
William
B. Hammond (Socialist), defeated.
1898 Nov 8:
John
Lind (Dem & People's), elected;
William
H. Eustis (Rep), defeated;
George
W. Higgins (Prohibition), defeated;
Lionel
C. Long (Midroad Populist), defeated;
William
B. Hammond (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1900 Nov 6:
Samuel
R. Van Sant (Rep), elected;
John
Lind (Dem), defeated;
Bernt
B. Haugan (Prohibition), defeated;
Thomas
H. Lucas (Socialist Democratic), defeated;
Edward
Kriz (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Sylvester
M. Fairchild (Midroad Populist), defeated.
1902 Nov 4:
Samuel
R. Van Sant (Rep), elected;
Leonard
A. Rosing (Dem), defeated;
Charles
Scanlon (Prohibition), defeated;
Thomas
J. McIghen (People's), defeated;
Thomas
Van Lear (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Jay
E. Nash (Socialist), defeated.
1904 Nov 8:
Albert
Johnson (Dem), elected;
Robert
C. Dunn (Rep), defeated;
Charles
W. Dorsett (Prohibition), defeated;
Jay
E. Nash (Public Ownership), defeated;
A.
W. M. Anderson (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1906 Nov 6:
Albert
Johnson (Dem), elected;
Albert
L. Cole (Rep), defeated;
Charles
W. Dorsett (Prohibition), defeated;
O.
E. Lofthus (Public Ownership), defeated.
1908:
Albert
Johnson (Dem), elected;
Jacob
F. Jacobson, defeated.
1909 Sep 20:
Albert
Johnson, died in office.
1910:
James
Gray, defeated.
1912 Sep 17:
Lewis
C. Spooner (Rep), defeated in primary.
1912 Nov 5:
Adolph
O. Eberhart (Rep), elected;
Peter
M. Ringdal (Dem), defeated;
Paul
V. Collins (Progressive), defeated;
E.
E. Lobeck (Prohibition), defeated;
David
Morgan (Socialist), defeated.
1914 Nov 3:
Winfield
S. Hammond (Dem), elected;
William
E. Lee (Rep), defeated;
W.
G. Calderwood (Prohibition), defeated;
Tom
J. Lewis (Socialist), defeated;
Herbert
Johnson (Ind), defeated;
Hugh
T. Halbert (Progressive), defeated.
1915 Dec 30:
Winfield
S. Hammond, died in office.
1916 Jun 19:
Thomas
P. Dwyer (Dem), nominated;
Cyrus
M. King (Dem), defeated in primary;
S.
D. Works (Dem), defeated in primary.
1916 Jun 19:
J.
A. A. Burnquist (Rep), nominated;
Samuel
G. Iverson (Rep), defeated in primary.
1916 Jun 19:
Thomas
J. Anderson (Prohibition), nominated;
Charles
W. Dorsett (Prohibition), defeated in primary.
1916 Nov 7:
J.
A. A. Burnquist (Rep), elected;
Thomas
P. Dwyer (Dem), defeated;
J.
O. Bentnall (Socialist), defeated;
Thomas
J. Anderson (Prohibition), defeated;
John
P. Johnson (Industrial Labor), defeated.
1918:
Charles
A. Lindbergh, defeated for nomination;
David
H. Evans (Farmer-Labor), defeated;
Fred
E. Wheaton (Dem), defeated.
1920:
Frank
Nelson (Rep), defeated in primary.
1920:
Henrik
Shipstead, defeated;
Laurence
C. Hodgson (Dem), defeated.
1922:
Edward
Indrehus (Dem), defeated;
Magnus
Johnson (Farmer-Labor), defeated.
1924:
Franklin
F. Ellsworth (Rep), defeated in primary.
1924 Nov 4:
Theodore
Christianson (Rep), elected;
Floyd
B. Olson (Farmer-Labor), defeated;
Carlos
Avery (Dem), defeated;
Michael
Ferch (Independent Progressive), defeated;
Oscar
Anderson (Socialist), defeated.
1926:
Alfred
Jaques (Dem), defeated;
Magnus
Johnson, defeated.
1928:
Andrew
Nelson (Dem), defeated;
Ernest
Lundeen, defeated.
1930 Nov 4:
Floyd
B. Olson (Farmer-Labor), elected;
Ray
P. Chase (Rep), defeated;
Edward
Indrehus (Dem), defeated;
Karl
Reeve (Communist), defeated.
1932:
John
E. Regan (Dem), defeated;
Earle
Brown (Rep), defeated.
1934 Jun 19:
Joseph
J. Moriarity (Dem), defeated in primary.
1934 Nov 6:
Floyd
B. Olson (Farmer-Labor), elected;
Martin
A. Nelson (Rep), defeated;
John
E. Regan (Dem), defeated;
Arthur
C. Townley (Ind), defeated;
S.
K. Davis (Communist), defeated.
1936 Aug 22:
Floyd
B. Olson, died in office.
1936 Nov 3:
Elmer
A. Benson (Farmer-Labor), elected;
Martin
A. Nelson (Rep), defeated;
Earl
Stewart (Industrial), defeated.
1938:
Elmer
A. Benson, defeated;
Thomas
F. Gallagher (Dem), defeated.
1940:
Ed
Murphy (Dem), defeated;
Hjalmar
Petersen, defeated.
1942:
John
G. Alexander, defeated;
John
D. Sullivan (Dem), defeated;
Hjalmar
Petersen, defeated.
1943 Apr 27:
Harold
E. Stassen, resigned.
1944:
Byron
G. Allen (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated.
1946 Nov 5:
Luther
W. Youngdahl (Rep), elected;
Harold
H. Barker (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated;
Rudolph
Gustafson (Industrial Government), defeated.
1948:
Charles
L. Halsted (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated.
1950 Nov 7:
Luther
W. Youngdahl (Rep), elected;
Harry
H. Peterson (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated;
Vernon
G. Campbell (Industrial Government), defeated.
1952:
Orville
L. Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated.
1954:
C.
Elmer Anderson, defeated.
1956:
Ancher
Nelsen, defeated.
1958 Nov 4:
Orville
L. Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), elected;
George
E. MacKinnon (Rep), defeated;
Arne
Anderson (Industrial Government), defeated.
1960:
Orville
L. Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated.
1962:
Elmer
L. Andersen, defeated.
1966:
Karl
F. Rolvaag, defeated.
1970:
Douglas
M. Head, defeated.
1974 Nov 5:
John
W. Johnson (Rep), defeated.
1978:
Rudy
Perpich (Dem), defeated.
1998:
Mike
Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated in primary.
1998:
Norm
Coleman (Rep), defeated;
Skip
Humphrey (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated.
2002:
Tim
Pawlenty (Rep), elected;
Roger
D. Moe (Democratic-Farmer-Labor), defeated.
2002 Nov 5:
Kari
Sachs (Socialist Workers), defeated.
2006:
Tim
Pawlenty (Rep), elected.
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