Governors of North Dakota

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

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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

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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

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nd.gov/hist/ndgov.htm

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