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Political Leaders in Minnesota Territorial History

Willis Gorman

• Second Governor of the Minnesota Territory

• Achieved the rank of Brigadier General during the Civil War as part of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers

Samuel Medary

• Third and last Governor of the Minnesota Territory

Alexander Ramsey

• First Governor of the Minnesota Territory

• Second Governor of the State of Minnesota

Henry Mower Rice

• Second Congressional Representative from the Minnesota Territory

• First Senator from the State of Minnesota

Henry Sibley

• Representative of Wisconsin Territory (after the state of Wisconsin was admitted to the union) in 1848

• Read his speech in support of creating Minnesota Territory

• First Congressional Representative from the Minnesota Territory

• First Governor of the State of Minnesota

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