Ruth Meiers

Ruth Meiers

33rd Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota
In office January 1, 1985 – March 19, 1987
Governor	George A. Sinner
Preceded by	Ernest Sands
Succeeded by	Lloyd Omdahl
Personal details
Born	(1925-11-06)November 6, 1925
Died	March 19, 1987(1987-03-19) (aged 61)

Ruth Meiers (November 6, 1925 – March 19, 1987)^[1] was the first female Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota. She became the 33rd Lieutenant Governor in 1985. Meiers was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer in 1986 and died in office six months later in March 1987. The Ruth Meiers Hospitality House is named in her honor. Meiers was a social worker in Mountrail County, North Dakota. In 1974, Meiers served in the North Dakota House of Representatives as a Democrat.^[2]

Political offices
Preceded by Ernest Sands	Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota 1985–1987	Succeeded by Lloyd Omdahl

References

↑ Alan Ehrenhalt (ed.). North Dakota Legislative Manual. Congressional Quarterly Press. ISBN 0871873753.
↑ "Lieut. Governor Ruth Meiers of North Dakota Dies". The New York Times. AP. March 21, 1987. Retrieved November 21, 2013.

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Governors and Lieutenant Governors of North Dakota

Governors	Miller A. Burke Shortridge Allin Briggs Devine Fancher White Sarles J. Burke Hanna Frazier Nestos Sorlie Maddock Shafer Langer O. Olson Moodie Welford Langer Moses Aandahl Brunsdale Davis Guy Link A. Olson Sinner Schafer Hoeven Dalrymple

Lieutenant Governors	Dickey Allin Wallace Worst Devine Bartlett Lewis Burdick Kraabel Fraine Kraabel Wood Hyland Maddock Carr Olson Welford Thoresen Patterson Oscar Hagen Holt Dahl Schnell Dahl Duffy Dahl Hagen Wenstrom Tighe Larsen Sanstead Sands Meiers Omdahl Myrdal Dalrymple Wrigley

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