List of Lieutenant Governors of North Dakota
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This is a list of lieutenant governors of North Dakota:
* - Served as Governor of North Dakota
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| Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous... |
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| Democratic-NPL Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous... |
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| Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
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| Republican/NPL Non-Partisan League The Nonpartisan League was a political organization founded in 1915 in the United States by former Socialist Party organizer A. C. Townley. The Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate... |
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| Independent North Dakota Democratic-Independent Party The North Dakota Democratic-Independent Party, abbreviated D-I, was a progressive political party that formed around 1890 in response to the North Dakota Republican Party's domination of state politics.-History:... |
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| # | Name | Term | Party |
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| 1 | Alfred Dickey | 1889–1890 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 2 | Roger Allin Roger Allin Roger Allin was an American politician who was the fourth Governor of North Dakota from 1895 to 1897, and previously the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1891 to 1892... * |
1891–1892 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 3 | Elmer D. Wallace | 1893–1894 | Independent North Dakota Democratic-Independent Party The North Dakota Democratic-Independent Party, abbreviated D-I, was a progressive political party that formed around 1890 in response to the North Dakota Republican Party's domination of state politics.-History:... |
| 4 | John H. Worst John H. Worst John H. Worst was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 4th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under Roger Allin. Worst also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1889 to 1894.-Notes:... |
1895–1896 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 5 | Joseph M. Devine Joseph M. Devine Joseph McMurray Devine was an American politician who was the Republican Governor of North Dakota from 1898 to 1899. He served as governor for less than one year as he finished the term after Governor Frank A. Briggs died in office-External links:* from the .... * |
1897–1900 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 6 | David Bartlett | 1901–1906 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 7 | Robert S. Lewis Robert S. Lewis Robert S. Lewis was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under John Burke. Lewis also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1901 to 1904... |
1907–1910 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 8 | Usher L. Burdick Usher L. Burdick Usher Lloyd Burdick was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota. He was the father of Quentin N. Burdick.-Early life and career:... |
1911–1912 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 9 | Anton T. Kraabel | 1913–1914 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 10 | John H. Fraine John H. Fraine John H. Fraine was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 10th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under L. B. Hanna. Fraine also served in the North Dakota House from 1909 to 1914.-Notes:... |
1915–1916 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 11 | Anton T. Kraabel | 1917–1918 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 12 | Howard R. Wood Howard R. Wood Howard R. Wood was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 12th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under Lynn Frazier and Ragnvald A. Nestos. Wood also served in the North Dakota House from 1917 to 1918.-Notes:... |
1919–1922 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 13 | Frank H. Hyland Frank H. Hyland Frank H. Hyland was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under Ragnvald A. Nestos. Hyland also served in the North Dakota House from 1911 to 1912, and in the North Dakota Senate from 1913 to 1920 and 1929 to 1932.-Notes:... |
1923–1924 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 14 | Walter Maddock Walter Maddock Walter Jeremiah Maddock was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He served in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1914 to 1924, and became the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota in 1924. Maddock became the 15th Governor of North Dakota in 1928 when Arthur G. Sorlie died in office, and... * |
1925–1928 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 15 | John W. Carr John W. Carr John W. Carr was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under George F. Shafer. Carr also served in the North Dakota House from 1923 to 1928.... |
1929–1932 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 16 | Ole H. Olson Ole H. Olson Ole H. Olson was born in Mondovi, Wisconsin. After graduating from Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota, he moved to North Dakota and eventually was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives and later was elected to the North Dakota State Senate. Olson was elected the Lieutenant... * |
1933–1934 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 17 | Walter Welford Walter Welford Walter Welford was born in Bellerby, Yorkshire, England. He was inaugurated as the 20th Governor of North Dakota on February 2, 1935 after Thomas H. Moodie was removed from office after it was determined he was ineligible to hold the office... * |
1935–1936 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 18 | Thorstein H. H. Thoresen | 1937–1938 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 19 | Jack A. Patterson Jack A. Patterson Jack A. Patterson was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 19th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under John Moses. Patterson also served in the North Dakota House from 1933 to 1934.-Notes:... |
1939–1940 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 20 | Oscar W. Hagen Oscar W. Hagen Oscar W. Hagen was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under John Moses. Hagen also served in the North Dakota House from 1937 to 1940.-Notes:... |
1941–1942 | Republican/NPL North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 21 | Henry Holt Henry Holt (North Dakota politician) Henry Holt was a politician from the U. S. state of North Dakota. Holt was from Grand Forks, North Dakota. In 1934, he was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator from North Dakota against incumbent Lynn Frazier. In 1940, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which nominated... |
1943–1944 | Democrat North Dakota Democratic Party The North Dakota Democratic Party was a political party in North Dakota that existed from the state's formation in 1889 until 1956, when the party merged with the Non Partisan League to form the modern North Dakota Democratic NPL Party.... |
| 22 | Clarence P. Dahl Clarence P. Dahl Clarence P. Dahl was a North Dakota politician with the Republican Party who served as the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1945 to 1950, 1953 to 1956, and from 1959 to 1960. He also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1938 to 1944 and from 1950 to 1952.-Biography:Clarence Dahl was born... |
1945–1950 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 23 | Ray Schnell Ray Schnell Raphael "Ray" Schnell was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under Clarence Norman Brunsdale. Schnell also served in the North Dakota House from 1939 to 1940, 1943–1946, and 1963-1964. Schnell died in 1970 of cancer at age 77.-Notes:... |
1951–1952 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 24 | Clarence P. Dahl Clarence P. Dahl Clarence P. Dahl was a North Dakota politician with the Republican Party who served as the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1945 to 1950, 1953 to 1956, and from 1959 to 1960. He also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1938 to 1944 and from 1950 to 1952.-Biography:Clarence Dahl was born... |
1953–1956 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 25 | Francis Clyde Duffy Francis Clyde Duffy Francis Clyde Duffy was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 25th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under John E. Davis. Duffy also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1949 to 1956.-Notes:... |
1957–1958 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 26 | Clarence P. Dahl Clarence P. Dahl Clarence P. Dahl was a North Dakota politician with the Republican Party who served as the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1945 to 1950, 1953 to 1956, and from 1959 to 1960. He also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1938 to 1944 and from 1950 to 1952.-Biography:Clarence Dahl was born... |
1959–1960 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 27 | Orville W. Hagen Orville W. Hagen Orville "Ike" W. Hagen was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under William Guy, and as the state's first North Dakota Commissioner of Labor from 1966 to 1986 when he lost his bid for re-election to Byron Knutson... |
1961–1962 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 28 | Frank A. Wenstrom Frank A. Wenstrom Frank A. Wenstrom was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under William L. Guy. Wenstrom also served in the North Dakota Senate for District 1 from 1957 to 1960 and 1967 to 1986, and was the President of the state's second... |
1963–1964 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 29 | Charles Tighe | 1965–1968 | Democrat-NPL |
| 30 | Richard F. Larsen Richard F. Larsen Richard F. Larsen is a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 30th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under William L. Guy. Larsen also served in the North Dakota House from 1965 to 1966 and the North Dakota Senate from 1967 to 1968.-Notes:... |
1969–1972 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 31 | Wayne G. Sanstead Wayne G. Sanstead Wayne Godfrey Sanstead is the current North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction. Sanstead holds a doctorate from the University of North Dakota in secondary education. Sanstead is the longest serving chief state school officer in the United States... |
1973–1980 | Democrat-NPL |
| 32 | Ernest Sands Ernest Sands Ernest M. Sands is a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 32nd Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under Allen I. Olson. Sands also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1967 to 1970 and from 1973 to 1980.... |
1981–1984 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 33 | Ruth Meiers Ruth Meiers Ruth Meiers was the first female Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota. She became Lieutenant Governor in 1984. Meiers was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer in 1986 and died in office six months later in March 1987. The Ruth Meiers Hospitality House is named in her honor.-External links:**... |
1985–1987 | Democrat-NPL |
| 34 | Lloyd Omdahl Lloyd Omdahl Lloyd Omdahl was the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, taking office after Ruth Meiers died in 1987. Previously he was a professor of political science at the University of North Dakota.-References:... |
1987–1992 | Democrat-NPL |
| 35 | Rosemarie Myrdal Rosemarie Myrdal Rosemarie Myrdal is a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the second female, and 35th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1993 to 2001 under Governor of North Dakota Ed Schafer in 1992. She also served in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1985 to 1992... |
1993–2000 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 36 | Jack Dalrymple Jack Dalrymple John "Jack" Dalrymple is a North Dakota politician and businessman who is the current Governor of North Dakota, and a one-time candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992. Dalrymple became governor after the resignation of John Hoeven, who was elected to the U.S... * |
2001–2010 | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
| 37 | Drew Wrigley Drew Wrigley Drew Wrigley is the 37th and current Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota. He was appointed by Governor Jack Dalrymple on December 7, 2010. Wrigley previously served as U.S... |
2010– | Republican North Dakota Republican Party The North Dakota Republican Party is the North Dakota affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party platform is generally conservative.The North Dakota Republican Party is strongly in control of the state's politics... |
* - Served as Governor of North Dakota
Governor of North Dakota
The Governor of North Dakota is the chief executive of North Dakota. The current Governor is Jack Dalrymple. The Governor has the right to sign and laws, and to call the Legislative Assembly, into emergency session. The Governor is also chairman of the North Dakota Industrial Commission. The...