List of lieutenant governors of North Dakota

This is a list of lieutenant governors of North Dakota:

Parties

  Democratic/Democratic-NPL   Republican   Republican/NPL   Democratic-Independent

Number of North Dakota governors by party affiliation

Party		Governors
Republican		32
	Republican	31
	Republican/NPL	1
Democratic		6
	Democratic	1
	Democratic-NPL	4
	Democratic-Independent	1

Current lieutenant governor Drew Wrigley

#	Lt. Governor	Term	Party	Note
1	Alfred Dickey	1889–1891	Republican
2	Roger Allin	1891–1893	Republican	[note 1]
3	Elmer D. Wallace	1893–1895	Democratic-Independent
4	John H. Worst	1895–1897	Republican
5	Joseph M. Devine	1897–1898	Republican	[note 1]
6	David Bartlett	1901–1907	Republican
7	Robert S. Lewis	1907–1911	Republican
8	Usher L. Burdick	1911–1913	Republican
9	Anton T. Kraabel	1913–1915	Republican
10	John H. Fraine	1915–1917	Republican
11	Anton T. Kraabel	1917–1919	Republican
12	Howard R. Wood	1919–1923	Republican
13	Frank H. Hyland	1923–1925	Republican
14	Walter Maddock	1925–1928	Republican	[note 1]
15	John W. Carr	1929–1933	Republican
16	Ole H. Olson	1933–1934	Republican	[note 1]
17	Walter Welford	1935	Republican	[note 1]
18	Thorstein H. H. Thoresen	1937–1939	Republican
19	Jack A. Patterson	1939–1941	Republican
20	Oscar W. Hagen	1941–1943	Republican/NPL|
21	Henry Holt	1943–1944	Democratic
22	Clarence P. Dahl	1945–1951	Republican
23	Ray Schnell	1951–1953	Republican
24	Clarence P. Dahl	1953–1957	Republican
25	Francis Clyde Duffy	1957–1959	Republican
26	Clarence P. Dahl	1959–1961	Republican
27	Orville W. Hagen	1961–1963	Republican
28	Frank A. Wenstrom	1963–1965	Republican
29	Charles Tighe	1965–1969	Democratic
30	Richard F. Larsen	1969–1973	Republican
31	Wayne G. Sanstead	1973–1981	Democratic
32	Ernest Sands	1981–1985	Republican
33	Ruth Meiers	1985–1987	Democratic
34	Lloyd Omdahl	1987–1992	Democratic
35	Rosemarie Myrdal	1992–2000	Republican
36	Jack Dalrymple	2000–2010	Republican	[note 1]
37	Drew Wrigley	2010–2016	Republican
38	Brent Sanford	2016	Republican

1. Served as Governor of North Dakota

Living former U.S. Lieutenant Governors of North Dakota

As of August 2014, six former lieutenant governors of North Dakota were alive, the oldest being Rosemarie Myrdal (served 1992–2000, born 1929). The most recent death of a former lieutenant governor of North Dakota was that of Ernest Sands (served 1981–1985, born 1922), on April 9, 2012. The most recently serving lieutenant governor to die was Ruth Meiers (1985-1987), who died in office on March 19, 1987.

Lt. Governor	Lt. Gubernatorial term	Date of birth (and age)
Richard F. Larsen	1969–1973	1936 (age 79–80)
Wayne G. Sanstead	1973–1981	April 16, 1935
Lloyd Omdahl	1987–1992	January 5, 1931
Rosemarie Myrdal	1992–2000	May 20, 1929
Jack Dalrymple	2000–2010	October 16, 1948