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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
"Reform!" was the rallying cry of late nineteenth-century America, and John Lind was in the vanguard. His election as the fourteenth governor of Minnesota and the first non-Republican governor of the state in decades heralded a new progressive era.
"For Governor, D.M. Clough" campaign ribbon.
Official Governor's Portrait of D.M. Clough, 1898. Painting by artist Herbert Conner.
Political poster with images of men running on the Republican State Ticket in 1894, including D.M. Clough for lieutenant governor.
David M. Clough, c.1887. Photograph by Zimmerman and Whitstruck.
Governor David M. Clough, 1895.
Statue of Knute Nelson in front of State Capitol building, 1940. Sculpted by John K. Daniels.
Funeral procession for Knute Nelson, on Cedar Street by the State Capitol, 1923.
Knute Nelson and family.
Knute Nelson on board a ship, c.1919.