March of the Governors #38 Jesse Ventura

Ramsey County History podcast by Paul Nelson

Jul 29, 202401:48:48Government & Organizations

To call our thirty-eighth governor, Jesse Ventura, unique is to engage in understatement. He was Minnesota's first third-party governor since Elmer Benson in 1936. Though he ran on the Reform Party ticket, that party ele...

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