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Politicians for Dakota Territory and South Dakota: Dakota Territory's Governors and Delegates

  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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