List of Lieutenant Governors of Minnesota

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This is a list of Lieutenant Governors of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

In 1886 elections were moved from odd years to even years. Beginning with the 1962 election, the term of Lieutenant Governor increased from two to four years. Prior to the 1974 election, Governors and Lieutenant Governors were elected on separate ballots. Marlene Johnson, elected in 1982 as the running mate of Rudy Perpich, was Minnesota's first woman Lieutenant Governor. All of her successors in that office have also been women.

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
William Holcombe	1858	1860	Democratic
Ignatius L. Donnelly	1860	1863	Republican
Henry Adoniram Swift	1863	1863	Republican
Charles D. Sherwood	1864	1866	Republican
Thomas H. Armstrong	1866	1870	Republican
William H. Yale	1870	1874	Republican
Alphonso Barto	1874	1876	Republican
James Wakefield	1876	1880	Republican
Charles A. Gilman	1880	1887	Republican
Albert E. Rice	1887	1891	Republican
Gideon S. Ives	1891	1893	Republican
David Marston Clough	1893	1895	Republican
Frank A. Day	1895	1897	Republican
John L. Gibbs	1897	1899	Republican
Lyndon Ambrose Smith	1899	1903	Republican
Ray W. Jones	1903	1907	Republican
Adolph Olson Eberhart	1907	1909	Republican
Edward Everett Smith	1909	1911	Republican
Samuel Y. Gordon	1911	1913	Republican
Joseph A. A. Burnquist	1913	1915	Republican
George H. Sullivan	1916	1917	Republican
Thomas Frankson	1917	1921	Republican
Louis L. Collins	1921	1925	Republican
William I. Nolan	1925	1929	Republican
Charles E. Adams	1929	1931	Republican
Henry M. Arens	1931	1933	Farmer Labor
Konrad K. Solberg	1933	1935	Farmer Labor
Hjalmar Petersen	1935	1936	Farmer Labor
William B. Richardson¹	1936	1937	Republican
Gottfrid Lindsten	1937	1939	Farmer Labor
C. Elmer Anderson	1939	1943	Republican
Edward John Thye	1943	1943	Republican
Archie H. Miller	1943	1945	Republican
C. Elmer Anderson	1945	1951	Republican
Ancher Nelsen	1953	1953	Republican
Donald O. Wright²	1954	1955	Republican
Karl Rolvaag	1955	1963	Democratic Farmer Labor
Alexander M. Keith	1963	1967	Democratic Farmer Labor
James B. Goetz	1967	1971	Republican
Rudy Perpich	1971	1976	Democratic Farmer Labor
Alec G. Olson³	1976	1979	Democratic Farmer Labor
Lou Wangberg	1979	1983	Independent Republican
Marlene Johnson	1983	1991	Democratic Farmer Labor
Joanell Dyrstad	1991	1995	Independent Republican
Joanne Benson	1995	1999	IR/Republican
Mae Schunk	1999	2003	Reform/Independence
Carol Molnau	2003	present	Republican

1 Richardson was actually president pro tem of the Minnesota Senate; became acting lieutenant governor when lieutenant governor Hjalmar Petersen became governor on the death of Floyd B. Olson, but Richardson was never sworn in.

2 Wright was president pro tem of the Minnesota Senate and assumed the office of lieutenant governor in 1954 after lieutenant governor Ancher Nelsen resigned to become administrator of the Rural Electric Administration.

3 As president of the Minnesota Senate, Olson assumed office of lieutenant governor when Rudy Perpich then lieutenant governor became governor on the resignation of Wendell Anderson, who had appointed himself to the U.S. Senate on resignation of Walter Mondale who had been elected Vice President.

[edit] Note on Minnesota political parties names

DFL: In 1944 the state Democratic party and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party merged and created the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). It is affiliated with the national Democratic party.

Republican Party of Minnesota: From November 1975 to September 1995 the name of the state Republican party was the Independent Republican party (IR). The party has always been affiliated with the national Republican party.

Independence Party of Minnesota: The party was founded under this name in 1992. In 1995 the IPM affiliated with the national Reform Party and renamed itself the Reform Party of Minnesota. In 2000 the Reform Party of Minnesota disaffiliated with the national Reform party and return to the name Independence party.