On this Date in Minnesota History: July 26

July 26, 1861 – John Albert Johnson, the first native-born Minnesotan to be elected governor of the state, was born on this date in St. Peter, Minn.

Governor John Johnson was the first of three Minnesota governors to die in office. Governor Winfield Scott Hammond was the second Minnesota governor to die in office after suffering a stroke in 1915. Floyd B. Olson was the third and most recent governor to die in office when he died of cancer in 1936.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Albert_Johnson

Gov. John Albert Johnsonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Albert_Johnson

In 1912, statues were erected to his memory; one in front of the capitol 

in St. Paul, which he was the first governor to occupy, and in front of the 

courthouse in St. Peter, both of similar design.

Photos  taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain July 26, 2015, 

as long as acknowledgement included.  

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