List of North Dakota Governors
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 |
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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 |
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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 |