Territory Governors 1849-1853 Alexander Ramsey (Whig) 1853-1857 Willis Arnold Gorman (Democrat) 1857-1858 Samuel Medary (D) State Governors 1858-1860 Henry Hastings Sibley (D) 1860-1863 Alexander Ramsey (Republican) 1863-1864 Henry Adoniram Swift (R) 1864-1866 Stephen Miller (R) 1866-1870 William Raine Marshall (R) 1870-1874 Horace Austin (R) 1874-1876 Cushman Davis (R) 1876-1882 John Sargent Pillsbury (R) 1882-1887 Lucius Frederick Hubbard (R) 1887-1889 Andrew Ryan McGill (R) 1889-1893 William Rush Merriam (R) 1893-1895 Knute Nelson (R) 1895-1899 David Marston Clough (R) 1899-1901 John Lind (Populist/Democratic Silver Republican) 1901-1905 Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (R) 1905-1909 John Albert Johnson (D) 1909-1915 Adolph Olson Eberhart (R) 1915-1915 Winfield Scott Hammond (D) 1915-1921 Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist (R) 1921-1925 Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus (R) 1925-1931 Theodore Christianson (R) 1931-1936 Floyd B. Olson (Farmer-Labor) 1936-1937 Hjalmar Petersen (FL) 1937-1939 Elmer Austin Benson (FL) 1939-1943 Harold Stassen (R) 1943-1947 Edward John Thye (R) 1947-1951 Luther Wallace Youngdahl (R) 1951-1955 Clyde Elmer Anderson (R) 1955-1961 Orville Freeman (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) 1961-1963 Elmer Lee Andersen (R) 1963-1967 Karl Fritjof Rolvaag (DFL) 1967-1971 Harold R LeVander (R) 1971-1976 Wendell Richard Anderson (DFL) 1976-1979 Rudy Perpich (DFL) 1979-1983 Albert H. Quie (Independent-Republican) 1983-1991 Rudy Perpich (DFL) 1991-1999 Arne H. Carlson (IR/R) 1999-2003 Jesse Ventura (James George Janos) (Reform/Independence) 2003-present Tim Pawlenty (R) References The Governor's Office and History, accessed February 12, 2004.
