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John Henry Hoeven III (born March 13, 1957), is a North Dakota banker and politician. He has been the Governor of North Dakota since December 15, 2000, and was also the President of the nation's only state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota, from 1993 until 2000.

John Hoeven was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, and attended college at Dartmouth College. He then received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and was a banker in Minot, North Dakota prior to pursuing a political career. From 1993 to 2000, he was the president and CEO of the state-owned Bank of North Dakota. He sought the office of the Governor of North Dakota as a Republican in 2000, and he was elected, defeating Democrat Heidi Heitkamp by a margin of 55 to 45 percent. In 2004, when up for re-election facing Joe Satrom, Hoeven won easily by a vote of 71 to 28 percent.

Hoeven and his wife, the First Lady of North Dakota Mical L. "Mikey" Hoeven, have two children, Marcela and Jack.