A list of governors from the state of North Dakota.[1]
Dakota Territory Governors[edit]
Note: Dakota Territory consisted of both present-day North and South Dakota.
Name |
Years
|
William Jayne
|
1861-1863
|
Newton Edmunds
|
1863-1866
|
Andrew Jackson Faulk
|
1866-1869
|
John A. Burbank
|
1869-1873
|
John L. Pennington
|
1874-1878
|
William A. Howard
|
1878-1880
|
Nehemiah G. Ordway
|
1880-1884
|
Gilbert A. Pierce
|
1884-1886
|
Louis K. Church
|
1887-1889
|
Arthur C. Mellette
|
1889
|
Governors of the State of North Dakota[edit]
Name |
Party |
Years
|
John Miller
|
Republican
|
1889-1890
|
Andrew H. Burke
|
Republican
|
1891-1892
|
Eli C. D. Shortridge
|
Populist Democrat
|
1893-1894
|
Roger Allin
|
Republican
|
1895-1896
|
Frank A. Briggs
|
Republican
|
1897-1898
|
Joseph M. Devine
|
Republican
|
1898
|
Frederick B. Fancher
|
Republican
|
1899-1900
|
Frank White
|
Republican
|
1901-1904
|
Elmore Y. Sarles
|
Republican
|
1905-1906
|
John Burke
|
Democrat
|
1907-1912
|
Louis B. Hanna
|
Republican
|
1913-1916
|
Lynn J. Frazier
|
Republican
|
1917-1921
|
Ragnvold A. Nestos
|
Republican
|
1921-1924
|
Arthur G. Sorlie
|
Republican
|
1925-1928
|
Walter J. Maddock
|
Republican
|
1928
|
George F. Shafer
|
Republican
|
1929-1932
|
William Langer
|
Republican
|
1933–1934, 1937-1938
|
Ole H. Olson
|
Republican
|
1934
|
Thomas H. Moodie
|
Democrat
|
1935
|
Walter Welford
|
Republican
|
1936-1937
|
John Moses
|
Democrat
|
1939-1944
|
Fred G. Aandahl
|
Republican
|
1945-1950
|
C. Norman Brunsdale
|
Republican
|
1951-1956
|
John E. Davis
|
Republican
|
1957-1960
|
William L. Guy
|
Democrat
|
1961-1972
|
Arthur A. Link
|
Democrat
|
1973-1980
|
Allen I. Olson
|
Republican
|
1981-1984
|
George A. Sinner
|
Democrat
|
1985-1992
|
Edward T. Schafer
|
Republican
|
1993-2000
|
John Hoeven
|
Republican
|
2000-2010
|
Jack Dalrymple
|
Republican
|
2010–present
|
- ↑ http://www.nd.gov/hist/ndgov.htm