List of North Dakota Governors

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Doug Burgum, the current governor of North Dakota

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

Dakota Territory *

Surname Term of office Political party
William A. Jayne 1861-1863
Newton Edmunds 1863-1866
Andrew Jackson Faulk 1866-1869
John A. Burbank 1869-1873
John L. Pennington 1874-1878
William Alanson Howard 1878-1880
Nehemiah George Ordway 1880-1884
Gilbert Ashville Pierce 1884-1886
Louis Kossuth Church 1887-1889
Arthur Calvin Mellette 1889

* Divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889

State of North Dakota

Surname Term of office Political party
John Miller 1889-1891 republican
Andrew Horce Burke 1891-1893 republican
Eli CD Shortridge 1893-1895 Populist party
Roger Allin 1895-1897 republican
Frank Arlington Briggs 1897-1898 republican
Joseph McMurray Devine 1898-1899 republican
Frederick Bartlett Fancher 1899-1901 republican
Frank White 1901-1905 republican
Elmore Yocum Sarles 1905-1907 republican
John Burke 1907-1913 democrat
Louis Benjamin Hanna 1913-1917 republican
Lynn Joseph Frazier 1917-1921 Nonpartisan League
Ragnvald Anderson Nestos 1921-1925 Independent Voters Association
Arthur Gustav Sorlie 1925-1928 republican
Walter J. Maddock 1928-1929 Nonpartisan League
George Frederick Shafer 1929-1933 Independent Voters Association
William Langer 1933-1934 republican
Ole H. Olson 1934-1935 republican
Thomas H. Moodie 1935 democrat
Walter Welford 1935-1937 republican
William Langer 1937-1939 republican
John Moses 1939-1945 democrat
Fred George Aandahl 1945–1951 republican
Clarence Norman Brunsdale 1951-1957 republican
John E. Davis 1957-1961 republican
William Lewis Guy 1961-1973 democrat
Arthur Albert Link 1973-1981 democrat
Allen Ingvar Olson 1981-1984 republican
George Albert Sinner 1985-1992 democrat
Edward Schafer 1992-2000 republican
John Henry Hoeven 2000-2010 republican
Jack Dalrymple 2010-2017 republican
Doug Burgum 2017- republican

See also