| 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) |