Name
Governorship
Party
Alexander Ramsey
1849-1853
Whig
William Arnold Gorman
1853-1857
Democrat
Samuel Medary
1857-1858
Democrat
State Governors
Henry Sibley
1858-1860
Democrat
Alexander Ramsey
1860-1863
Republican
Henry Swift
1863-1864
Republican
Stephen Miller
1864-1866
Republican
William Raine Marshall
1866-1870
Republican
Horace Austin
1870-1874
Republican
Cushman Davis
1874-1876
Republican
John S. Pillsbury
1876-1882
Republican
Lucius Frederick Hubbard
1882-1887
Republican
Andrew Ryan McGill
1887-1889
Republican
William Rush Merriam
1889-1893
Republican
Knute Nelson
1893-1895
Republican
David Marston Clough
1895-1899
Republican
John Lind
1899-1901
Democrat
Samuel R. Van Sant
1901-1905
Republican
John Albert Johnson
1905-1909
Democrat
Adolph Olson Eberhart
1909-1915
Republican
Winfield Scott Hammond
1915-1915
Democrat
Joseph A. A. Burnquist
1915-1921
Republican
Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus
1921-1925
Republican
Theodore Christianson
1925-1931
Republican
Floyd B. Olson
1931-1936
Farmer-Labor
Hjalmar Petersen
1936-1937
Farmer-Labor
Elmer Austin Benson
1937-1939
Farmer-Labor
Harold Stassen
1939-1943
Republican
Edward John Thye
1943-1947
Republican
Luther Youngdahl
1947-1951
Republican
C. Elmer Anderson
1951-1955
Republican
Orville Freeman
1955-1961
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Elmer L. Andersen
1961-1963
Republican
Karl Rolvaag
1963-1967
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Harold LeVander
1967-1971
Republican
Wendell Anderson
1971-1976
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Rudy Perpich
1976-1979
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Al Quie
1979-1983
Independent-Republican
Rudy Perpich
1983-1991
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Arne Carlson
1991-1999
Ind. Republican-Republican
Jesse Ventura
[James Janos]1999-2003
Reform/Independence
Tim Pawlenty
2003-2011
Republican
Mark Dayton
January 3, 2011- PRESENT
Democratic-Farmer-Labor
