A list of governors from the state of North Dakota.[1]
Dakota Territory Governors
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
| 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
|
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nd.gov/hist/ndgov.htm
