List Of Lieutenant Governors Of Minnesota
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 the 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 Edward 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 | 2011 | Republican |
| Yvonne Prettner Solon | 2011 | present | Democratic Farmer Labor |
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