1849-1853 Alexander Ramsey
1853-1857 Willis Arnold Gorman
1857-1858 Samuel D. Medary
State Governors
1858-1860 Henry Hastings Sibley
1860-1863 Alexander Ramsey
1863-1864 Henry Adoniram Swift
1864-1866 Stephen Miller
1866-1870 William Rainey Marshall
1870-1874 Horace Austin
1874-1876 Cushman Kellogg 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 Bjornsterne 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 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 James George Janos (Jesse Ventura)
2003-2011 Tim Pawlenty
2011 now Mark Dayton
Reference
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Minnesota Governors, 1849-
