List of Minnesota Governors

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Tim Walz, the current governor of Minnesota

This list includes all the governors of the US state of Minnesota and the pre-existing Minnesota Territory .

Minnesota Territory

Surname Term of office Political party
Alexander Ramsey 1849-1853 Whig
Willis Arnold Gorman 1853-1857 democrat
Samuel Medary 1853-1857 democrat

State of Minnesota

Surname Term of office Political party
Henry Hastings Sibley 1858-1860 democrat
Alexander Ramsey 1860-1863 republican
Henry Adoniram Swift 1863-1864 republican
Stephen Miller 1864-1866 republican
William Rainey Marshall 1866-1870 republican
Horace Austin 1870-1874 republican
Cushman Kellogg Davis 1874-1876 republican
John Sargent Pillsbury 1876-1882 republican
Lucius Frederick Hubbard 1882-1887 republican
Andrew Ryan McGill 1887-1889 republican
William Rush Merriam 1889-1893 republican
Knute Nelson 1893-1895 republican
David Marston Clough 1895-1899 republican
John Lind 1899-1901 democrat
Samuel Rinnah Van Sant 1901-1905 republican
John Albert Johnson 1905-1909 democrat
Adolph Olson Eberhart 1909-1915 republican
Winfield Scott Hammond 1915 democrat
Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist 1915-1921 republican
Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus 1921-1925 republican
Theodore Christianson 1925-1931 republican
Floyd Bjørnstjerne Olson 1931-1936 Farmer Labor Party
Hjalmar Petersen 1936-1937 Farmer Labor Party
Elmer Austin Benson 1937-1939 Farmer Labor Party
Harold Edward Stassen 1939-1943 republican
Edward John Thye 1943-1947 republican
Luther Wallace Youngdahl 1947-1951 republican
Clyde Elmer Anderson 1951-1955 republican
Orville Lothrop Freeman 1955-1961 Democratic Farmer Laboratory
Elmer Lee Andersen 1961-1963 republican
Karl Fritjof Rolvaag 1963-1967 Democratic Farmer Laboratory
Karl Harold Phillip LeVander 1967-1971 republican
Wendell Richard Anderson 1971-1976 Democratic Farmer Laboratory
Rudolph George Perpich 1976-1979 Democratic Farmer Laboratory
Albert Harold Quie 1979-1983 republican
Rudolph George Perpich 1983-1991 Democratic Farmer Laboratory
Arne Helge Carlson 1991-1999 republican
Jesse Ventura 1999-2003 Reform Party
Timothy James Pawlenty 2003-2011 republican
Mark Brandt Dayton 2011-2019 Democratic Farmer Laboratory
Timothy James Walz since 2019 Democratic Farmer Laboratory

See also