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The podcast that highlights the history of St. Paul and Ramsey County Minnesota and keeps you up to date on the work of the Ramsey County Historical Society.
Alan Howell Episode 1's guest is St. Paul resident, Alan Howell. Alan brings more than 25 years of aviation design experience—and a decade o...
Mark Dayton, Minnesota's fortieth governor, was the oldest to assume that office for the first time at sixty-three. He stepped into the role...
Tim Pawlenty grew up in a family of South St. Paul Democrats but embraced Republicanism as a teenager. He was a hard worker and excellent st...
To call our thirty-eighth governor, Jesse Ventura, unique is to engage in understatement. He was Minnesota's first third-party governor sinc...
Arne Carlson, Minnesota's thirty-seventh governor, was a Swede and a progressive Republican, like several before him, but unlike them, too....
Following his gubernatorial defeat in 1978, Rudy Perpich (1928-1995) spent a few years in Vienna, Austria, working as a trade representative...
Growing up in Frogtown In 1941, young Wendy Ham's Gumpa Guy Metzger built a dollhouse—a replica of the family home at 435 Charles Avenue in...
Albert H. Quie (1923-2023) left a safe seat in Congress after twenty years to run for governor in 1978. In that, his timing was good. He rod...
March of the Governors, Governor #34 Rudy Perpich Series Podcast #37 Rudy Perpich (1928-1995) served as Minnesota's thirty-fourth governor i...
March of the Governors, Governor #33 Wendell Anderson (Series Podcast #35) Before an ignominious electoral end, Wendell "Wendy" Anderson was...
March of the Governors, Governor #32 Harold Levander (Series Podcast #35) Harold Levander (1910-1982) ran for political office once in his l...
March of the Governors, Governor #31 Karl Fritjof Rolvaag (Series Podcast #34) Karl Fritjof Rolvaag (1913-1990) grew up in Northfield, the s...
March of the Governors, Governor #30 Elmer L. Andersen (Series Podcast #33) For Elmer L. Andersen, his single term as governor (1961-1963) m...
March of the Governors, Governor #29 Orville Lothrop Freeman (Series Podcast #32) Orville Lothrop Freeman (1918-2003) was, like governors Fl...
March of the Governors, Governor #28 C. Elmer Anderson (Series Podcast #31) Minnesota's twenty-eighth governor, C. Elmer Anderson (1912-1998...
March of the Governors Special Edition: Billy Williams March of the Governors Series Podcast #30 William F. (Billy) Williams never served as...
March of the Governors, Governor #27 Luther Youngdahl (Series Podcast #29) From his youth, Luther Youngdahl (b. 1896) aspired to be a judge,...
March of the Governors, Governor #26 Edward John Thye (Series Podcast #28) Edward John Thye (1896-1969) was called Minnesota's "farmer-gover...
March of the Governors – Harold Stassen, Governor #25 Podcast #27 Harold Stassen, Minnesota's twenty-fifth governor, is among our most intri...
March of the Governors Podcast #26 The Farmer-Labor Party Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful third party in American his...
March of the Governors, Governor #24 Elmer Austin Benson (Series Podcast #25) We are unlikely to see a politician like Elmer Benson ever aga...
March of the Governors, Governor #23: Hjalmar Petersen (Series Podcast #24) Hjalmar Petersen (1890-1968) holds many distinctions as a govern...
March of the Governors, Governor #22 Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson (Series Podcast #23) By age thirty, Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson (1891-1936) had b...
March of the Governors, Governor #21 Theodore Christianson (Series Podcast #22) Theodore Christianson (1883-1948) was a farm boy from Lac Qu...
March of the Governors, Governor #20 Jacob A. O. Preus (Series Podcast #21) By age forty-one, Jacob A. O. Preus had been Minnesota's insuran...
March of the Governors, Governor #19 Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist (Series Podcast #20) Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist (1879-1961), born in D...
March of the Governors, Governor #18 Winfield Scott Hammond (Series Podcast #19) Winfield Scott Hammond (1863-1915) was Minnesota's eighteen...
(March of the Governors Podcast #18) Adolph Eberhart (1870-1944) was a penniless, immigrant child from Varmland, Sweden, who embraced the op...
John Albert Johnson (March of the Governors Series #17) Minnesota's sixteenth governor, John Albert Johnson, was our fourth from St. Peter....
March of the Governors, Podcast #16 Samuel Van Sant Samuel Van Sant was Minnesota's fifteenth governor—the first to serve in the twentieth c...
Three-term US congressman John Lind, a traditional Republican with a stream of populism coursing through his veins, made a major political c...
David Marston Clough was a lumber baron and politician who served as Minnesota's Republican governor from 1895 to 1899. Born in New Hampshir...
Knute Nelson (1843-1923) spent two years as Governor of Minnesota on his way to becoming a representative in the US Senate, where he served...
Ramsey County Historical Society presents March of the Governors, Governor #11: William Merriam. William Merriam (1849-1931) was the first M...
Andrew McGill (1840-1905), our tenth governor, served one tumultuous term in office after 13 years as state insurance commissioner. Because...
John Pillsbury, a Republican, served three terms as governor of Minnesota, from January 1876 to January 1882. An immigrant from New Hampshir...
Possessing little more than a drive to be a success, 21-year-old Lucius F. Hubbard reached Red Wing in spring 1857. Unimposing in size and s...
Minnesota's seventh governor, Cushman Davis, served only one term from 1874 to 1876 during which most of the state recovered from the Panic...
The US Dakota War of 1862 was a unique event in Minnesota history. In his recent book, Massacre in Minnesota, the eminent historian Gary Cla...
The second of four Minnesota governors from St. Peter, Horace Austin was the state's first governor to directly confront the increased power...
William Rainey Marshall could be said to occupy a prominent place in Minnesota's list of founding fathers. He played a leading role in many...
Stephen Miller moved to Minnesota in middle age from Pennsylvania, several years after his friend Alexander Ramsey had moved to the state. H...
May 2021: March of the Governors #3 - Henry Swift Henry Swift came to Minnesota from Ohio as a young man, eventually settling in St. Peter....
Alexander Ramsey did not have it easy. He was orphaned at age 10 and worked as a store clerk and a carpenter before finding his vocation in...
This is the first in a new series of podcasts. We call it March of the Governors because we will examine the lives and careers of governors...
The International Institute of Minnesota opened its doors, in St. Paul, in December of 1919, to serve the needs of recent immigrants and ref...
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Minnesota led the nation in reform and modernization of the treatment of the mentally ill. But it didn't...
Ramsey County Historical Society and TPT (Twin Cities Public Television) have collaborated in the production of a new documentary film, Nort...
No one knows more about subterranean St. Paul -- the caves beneath our feet -- than geologist and author Greg Brick. In his new book, Minnes...
The Gibbs Farm museum preserves remnants of both native and pioneer life from the mid-19th century, right in the middle of a densely populat...