List of Minnesota Governors
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 |