List of Minnesota Governors

This is a list of Governors for Minnesota:

Territory Governors

• 1849-1853 Alexander Ramsey
• 1853-1857 Willis Arnold Gorman
• 1857-1858 Samuel Medary

State Governors

• 1858-1860 Henry Hastings Sibley
• 1860-1863 Alexander Ramsey
• 1863-1864 Henry Adoniram Swift
• 1864-1866 Stephen Miller
• 1866-1870 William Raine Marshall
• 1870-1874 Horace Austin
• 1874-1876 Cushman Davis
• 1876-1882 John Sargent Pillsbury
• 1882-1887 Lucius Frederick Hubbard
• 1887-1889 Andrew Ryan McGill
• 1889-1893 William Rush Merriam
• 1893-1895 Knute Nelson
• 1895-1899 David Marston Clough
• 1899-1901 John Lind
• 1901-1905 Samuel Rinnah Van Sant
• 1905-1909 John Albert Johnson
• 1909-1915 Adolph Olson Eberhart
• 1915-1915 Winfield Scott Hammond
• 1915-1921 Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist
• 1921-1925 Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus
• 1925-1931 Theodore Christianson
• 1931-1936 Floyd B. Olson
• 1936-1937 Hjalmar Petersen
• 1937-1939 Elmer Austin Benson
• 1939-1943 Harold Edward Stassen
• 1943-1947 Edward John Thye
• 1947-1951 Luther Wallace Youngdahl
• 1951-1955 Clyde Elmer Anderson
• 1955-1961 Orville Lothrop Freeman
• 1961-1963 Elmer Lee Andersen
• 1963-1967 Karl Fritjof Rolvaag
• 1967-1971 Harold R LeVander
• 1971-1976 Wendell Richard Anderson
• 1976-1979 Rudolph G. Perpich
• 1979-1983 Albert H. Quie
• 1983-1991 Rudolph G. Perpich
• 1991-1999 Arne H. Carlson
• 1999-2003 Jesse Ventura aka James George Janos
• 2003-____ Tim Pawlenty