List of People From Grand Forks, North Dakota - Law, Politics, and Government

Law, Politics, and Government

  • Rick Clayburgh, North Dakota Tax Commissioner
  • Ronald Davies, federal judge, ordered the integration of Little Rock Central High School
  • James D. Gronna, North Dakota Secretary of State
  • Gary Johnson, state congressman for Wisconsin
  • Walter Maddock, 15th governor of North Dakota
  • Pat Owens, Grand Forks mayor during the 1997 Red River Flood
  • Leonard Peltier, American Indian activist; convicted of murder in the deaths of 2 FBI agents, though the legality of his conviction is in question
  • Dale V. Sandstrom, justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court
  • Arthur G. Sorlie, 14th governor of North Dakota

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