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YEAR
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR
CONGRESS NUMBER
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL DELEGATE
1861
William Jayne 1861-1863
37th (1861-1863)
John Blair Smith Todd
1862
1863
Newton Edmunds 1863-1866
38th (1863-1865)
William Jayne (served until 1864)
1864
John Blair Smith Todd
1865
39th (1865-1867)
Walter Atwood Burleigh
1866
Andrew Jackson Faulk 1867-1869
1867
40th (1867-1869)
Walter Atwood Burleigh
1868
1869
John A. Burbank 1869-1873
41st (1869-1871)
Solomon Lewis Spink
1870
1871
42nd (1871-1873)
Moses Kimball Armstrong
1872
1873
43rd (1873-1875)
Moses Kimball Armstrong
1874
John L. Pennington 1874-1878
1875
44th (1875-1877)
Jefferson Parish Kidder
1876
1877
45th (1877-1879)
Jefferson Parish Kidder
1878
William Alanson Howard 1878-1880
1879
46th (1879-1881)
Granville Gaylord Bennett
1880
Nehemiah George Ordway 1880-1884
1881
47th (1881-1883)
Richard Franklin Pettigrew
1882
1883
48th (1883-1885)
John Baldwin Raymond
1884
Gilbert Ashville Pierce 1884-1886
1885
49th (1885-1887)
Oscar Sherman Gifford
1886
1887
Louis Kossuth Church 1887-1889
50th (1887-1889)
Oscar Sherman Gifford
1888
1889
Arthur Calvin Mellette 1889-1889
51st (1889–1891)
George Arthur Mathews (Dakota Territorial Delegate to 51st congress until statehood)
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