GOVERNORS OF MINNESOTA

Rudy (Rudolph George) Perpich

Thirty-fourth State Governor
December 29, 1976 - January 4, 1979

Thirty-sixth State Governor
January 3, 1983 - January 7, 1991

Thirty-ninth Lieutenant Governor
January 4, 1971 - December 29, 1976
(Lieutenant Governor Perpich became governor when Governor Wendell R. Anderson resigned to become U.S. Senator)

Born: June 27, 1928
in Carson Lake, Minnesota

Died: September 21, 1995
in Minnetonka, Minnesota

Married to: Delores "Lola" Helen Simich (1954)

Ethnic Background: Croatian

Occupation: Dentist, legislator, international business consultant

Party: Democratic-Farmer-Labor

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