Governors of North Dakota

A list of governors from the state of North Dakota.

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	2010–2016
Doug Burgum	Republican	2016-2024
Kelly Armstrong	Republican	2024-present