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.

1858-1860 William Holcombe Democratic
1860-1863 Ignatius Donnelly Republican
1863-1863 Henry Adoniram Swift Republican
1864-1866 Charles D. Sherwood Republican
1866-1870 Thomas H. Armstrong Republican
1870-1874 William H. Yale Republican
1874-1876 Alphonso Barto Republican
1876-1880 James Wakefield Republican
1880-1887 Charles A. Gilman Republican
1887-1891 Albert E. Rice Republican
1891-1893 Gideon S. Ives Republican
1893-1895 David Marston Clough Republican
1895-1897 Frank A. Day Republican
1897-1899 John L. Gibbs Republican
1899-1903 Lyndon Ambrose Smith Republican
1903-1907 Ray W. Jones Republican
1907-1909 Adolph Olson Eberhart Republican
1909-1911 Edward Everett Smith Republican
1911-1913 Samuel Y. Gordon Republican
1913-1915 Joseph A. A. Burnquist Republican
1916-1917 George H. Sullivan Republican
1917-1921 Thomas Frankson Republican
1921-1925 Louis L. Collins Republican
1925-1929 William I. Nolan Republican
1929-1931 Charles E. Adams Republican
1931-1933 Henry M. Arens Farmer Labor
1933-1935 Konrad K. Solberg Farmer Labor
1935-1936 Hjalmar Petersen Farmer Labor
1936-1937 William B. Richardson Republican¹
1937-1939 Gottfrid Lindsten Farmer Labor
1939-1943 C. Elmer Anderson Republican
1943-1943 Edward John Thye Republican
1943-1945 Archie H. Miller Republican
1945-1951 C. Elmer Anderson Republican
1953-1953 Ancher Nelsen Republican
1954-1955 Donald O. Wright Republican²
1955-1963 Karl Rolvaag Democratic Farmer Labor
1963-1967 Alexander M. Keith Democratic Farmer Labor
1967-1971 James B. Goetz Republican
1971-1976 Rudy Perpich Democratic Farmer Labor
1976-1979 Alec G. Olson Democratic Farmer Labor³
1979-1983 Lou Wangberg Independent Republican
1983-1991 Marlene Johnson Democratic Farmer Labor
1991-1995 Joanell Dyrstad Independent Republican
1995-1999 Joanne Benson IR/Republican
1999-2003 Mae Schunk Reform/Independence
2003-____ Carol Molnau 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.