Alaska
1745-1867 Russian colony
1867 Sold to the US
1867-1884 US administration
1884-1912 District
1912-1959 Territory
1959- State of Alaska
Governors
1884-1885 John Henry Kinhead
1885-1889 Alfred Peter Swineford
1889-1893 Lyman Enos Knapp
1893-1897 James Sheakley
1897-1906 John Green Brady
1906-1909 Wilford Bacon Hoggatt
1909-1913 Walter Eli Clark
1913-1918 John Franklin Alexander Strong
1918-1921 Thomas Christmas Riggs
1921-1925 Scott Cordelle Bone
1925-1933 George Alexander Parks
1933-1939 John Weir Troy
1939-1953 Ernest Henry Gruening
1953-1957 Benjamin Franklin Heintzleman
1957-1958 Michael Anthony Stepovich
1958-1959 Waino Edward Henrickson
1959-1966 William Allen Egan D
(1970-1974)
1966-1969 Walter Joseph Hickel R, AL
(1990-1994)
1969-1970 Keith Harvey Miller R
1974-1982 Jay Sterner Hammond R
1982-1986 William Jennings Sheffield D
1986-1990 Steven Camberling Cowper D
1994-2002 Anthony Caroll Knowles D
2002-2006 Francis Hughes Murkowski R
2006- Sarah Louise Palin R
AL=Alaskan Independence
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Idaho
Governors
1863-1864 William Henson Wallace
1864-1866 Caleb Dell Lyon
1866-1870 Davis W. Ballard
1870-1871 Gilman Marston
1871-1875 Thomas Warren Bennett
1875-1876 David Preston Thompson
1876-1878 Mason Brayman
1878-1880 John Philo Hoyt
1880-1883 John Baldwin Neil
1883-1884 John N. Erwin
1884-1885 William Malcolm Bunn
1885-1889 Edward A. Stevenson
1889-1890 George Laird Shoup
1890-1893 Norman Bushnell Willey
1893-1897 William John McConnell
1897-1901 Frank Steuenberg
1901-1903 Frank Williams Hunt
1903-1905 John Tracy Morrison
1905-1909 Frank Robert Gooding
1909-1911 James Henry Brady
1911-1913 James Henry Hawley
1913-1915 John Michiner Haines
1915-1919 Moses Alexander
1919-1923 David Williams Davis
1923-1927 Charles Calvin Moore
1927-1931 Henry Clarence Baldridge
1931-1937 Charles Benjamin Ross
1937-1939 Barzilla Worth Clark
1939-1941 Clarence Alfred Bottolfsen
(1943-1945)
1939-1941 Chase Addisson Clark
1945 Charles Clinton Gossett D
1945-1947 Arnold Williams D
1947-1951 Charles Armington Robins R
1951-1955 Leonard Beck Jordan R
1955-1967 Robert Eben Smylie R
1967-1971 Donald Williams Samuelson R
1971-1977 Cecil Dale Andrus D
(1987-1995)
1977-1987 John Victor Evans D
1995-1999 Philip Eugene Batt R
1999-2006 Dirk Arthur Kempthorne R
2006-2007 James Elroy Risch R
2007- Clement Leroy Otter R
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Michigan
Minnesota
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Montana
Governors
1889-1893 Joseph Kemp Toole
(1901-1908)
1893-1897 John Ezra Rickards
1897-1901 Robert Burns Smith
1908-1913 Edwin L. Norris
1913-1921 Samuel Vernon Stewart
1921-1925 Joseph Moore Dixon
1925-1933 John Edward Erickson
1933-1935 Frank Henry Cooney
1935-1937 William Elmer Holt
1937-1941 Roy Elmer Ayers
1941-1949 Samuel C. Ford R
1949-1953 John Woodrow Bonner D
1953-1961 John Hugo Aronson R
1961-1962 Donald Grant Nutter R
1962-1969 Timothy Milford Babock R
1969-1973 Forrest Howard Anderson D
1973-1981 Thomas Lee Judge D
1981-1989 Theodore Schwinden D
1989-1993 Stanley Graham Stephens R
1993-2001 Marc Racicot R
2001-2005 Judy Martz R
2005- Brian David Schweitzer D
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North Dakota
1861-1889 Part od Dakota territory
1889- State
Governors
1889-1891 John Miller
1891-1893 Andrew Horace Burke
1893-1895 Eli C.D Shortridge
1895-1897 Roger Allin
1897-1898 Frank Arlington Briggs
1898-1899 Joseph McMurray Devine
1899-1901 Frederick Bartlett Fancher
1901-1905 Frank White
1905-1907 Elmore Yocum Sarles
1907-1912 John Burke
1912-1917 Louis Benjamin Hanna
1917-1921 Lynn Joseph Frazier
1921-1925 Ragnvald Anderson Nestos
1925-1928 Arthur Gustav Sorlie
1928-1929 Walter Jeremiah Maddock
1929-1932 George Frederick Shafer
1932-1934 William Langer
(1937-1939)
1934-1935 Ole H. Olson
1935 Thomas Hilliard Moodie
1935-1937 Walter Welford
1939-1945 John Moses
1945-1951 Frederick George Aandahl R
1951-1957 Norman Brunsdale R i1891-1978
1957-1961 John Edward Davis R i1913-1990
1961-1973 William Lewis Guy D
1973-1981 Arthur Albert Link D
1981-1985 Allen Ingvar Olson R
1985-1992 George Albert Sinner D
1992-2000 Edward Thomas Schafer R
2000- John Henry Hoeven R
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Washington
1812 Claimed by US
1818-1846 Joint US, UK administration
1846-1853 Part of Oregon
1853-1889 Territory
1889- State
Governors
1853-1857 Isaac Ingalls Stevens
1857-1858 Fayette McMullen
1858-1859 Charles H. Mason
1859-1860 Rochard Dickerson Gholson
1860-1861 Henry M. McGill
1861-1866 William Pickering
1866-1867 George Edward Cole
1867-1869 Marshall F. Moore
1869-1870 Alvan Flanders
1870-1872 Edward Seling Saloman
1872-1880 Elisha Peyre Ferry
(1889-1893)
1880-1884 William Augustus Newell
1884-1887 Watson Carvosso Squire
1887-1889 Eugene Semple
1889 Miles Conway Moore
1893-1897 John Harte McGraw
1897-1901 John Rankin Rogers
1901-1905 Henry McBride
1905-1909 Albert Edward Mead
1909 Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove
1909-1913 Marion E. Hay
1913-1919 Ernest Lister
1919-1925 Louis Folwell Hart
1925-1933 Roland Hill Hartley
1933-1941 Clarence Daniel Martin
1941-1945 Arthur Bernard Langlie R
(1949-1957)
1945-1949 Monrad Charles Wallgren D
1957-1965 Albert Dean Rosellini D
1965-1977 Daniel Jackson Evans R
1977-1981 Marguerite 'Dixy' Lee Ray D
1914-1994
1981-1985 John Dennis Spellman R
1985-1993 Booth Gardner D
1993-1997 Michael Edward Lowry D
1997-2005 Gary Faye Locke D
2005- Christine O'Grady Gregoire D
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Wisconsin