John Stewart Dalrymple III (born October 16, 1948) is an American politician and businessman who served as the
32nd Governor of North Dakota
The governor of North Dakota is the head of government of North Dakota and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
The Constitution of North Dakota specifies that "the executive power is vested in the governor" in Secti ...
from 2010 to 2016. A member of the
Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota
The lieutenant governor of North Dakota is a political office in North Dakota. The lieutenant governor's duty is to preside as President of the Senate, and is responsible for legislative relations, the state budget and agribusiness development. ...
from 2000 to 2010 under Governor
John Hoeven
John Henry Hoeven III ( ; born March 13, 1957) is an American banker and politician serving as the senior U.S. senator from North Dakota, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Hoeven served as the 31st governor of No ...
.
Dalrymple assumed the governorship following Hoeven's
election
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
to the
United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
. Prior to his inauguration as North Dakota Lieutenant Governor, Dalrymple served in the
North Dakota House of Representatives
The North Dakota House of Representatives is the lower house of the North Dakota Legislative Assembly and is larger than the North Dakota Senate.
North Dakota is divided into between 40 and 54 legislative districts apportioned by population as d ...
for the 22nd district for eight consecutive terms, from 1985 through 2000. He was a candidate for the U.S. Senate twice, in
1988
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and
1992
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.
Early life
Dalrymple was born on October 16, 1948, in
Minneapolis
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,
Minnesota
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, the son of Mary Josephine (Knoblauch) and John Stewart Dalrymple Jr. He spent many of his formative years in
Casselton, North Dakota
Casselton is a city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 2,479 at the 2020 census. making it the 20th largest city in North Dakota. Casselton was founded in 1876. The city is named in honor of George Washington Cass, ...
, on his family's wheat farm, which was established in 1875 by his great-grandfather,
Oliver Dalrymple.
At age 7, when Dalrymple was in
elementary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
in 1955, his grandfather, John Stewart Dalrymple, Oliver's son, "still owned about 25,000 acres of farmland". In 1966, he graduated from
The Blake School, a private co-educational day school, where he took the preparatory course to earn his high school diploma.
Heading to Connecticut for college as a
legacy student
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, Dalrymple graduated with honors from
Yale College
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with the Class of 1970, with an
A.B.
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in American Studies.
Agricultural career
Dalrymple returned after graduation to North Dakota, going to work managing the family's Dalrymple Farm in the Red River Valley, a
durum wheat
Durum wheat (), also called pasta wheat or macaroni wheat (''Triticum durum'' or ''Triticum turgidum'' subsp. ''durum''), is a Polyploid, tetraploid species of wheat. It is the second most cultivated species of wheat after common wheat, although ...
producer in the Casselton area.
Dalrymple was named the Outstanding Young Farmer of the United States of America in 1983 by Outstanding Farmers of America (OFA).
He was the founding board chairman of Dakota Growers Pasta Company, formed as an
agricultural cooperative
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A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperati ...
of more than 1,100 primarily North Dakota wheat growers in 1992. The cooperative grew to become North America's third-largest manufacturer and marketer of dry pasta products. Dakota Growers Pasta provides an array of products for retail brands, retail private label and food service. Dalrymple led the transition of the structure of the organization, from a cooperative to a
C corporation, to raise capital and to perform
acquisitions
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.
Dakota Growers Pasta was sold in May 2010 for about $240 million to a Canadian firm, Viterra Inc. Opposition to the Viterra sale was largely due to the fact that "the cooperative was created with the help of the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, other rural cooperatives and the city of Carrington, where the cooperative was based." Some government leaders felt strongly that these entities should also benefit from the sale.
Ernst and Young
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(now EY) selected Dalrymple as the 2007 Master Winner Award Winner Upper Midwest Region, for his work in helping to found and guide Dakota Growers Pasta Company.
Volunteer service
In 1975, Dalrymple helped to found ShareHouse Inc., a
residential treatment
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program for those recovering from alcohol or drug dependencies, in
Fargo.
During the 1980s, Dalrymple served on the Casselton (ND) Jobs Development Commission.
In the 1990s, Dalrymple was chairman of the Board for
Prairie Public Television
Prairie Public Television is a state network of public television stations operated primarily by Prairie Public Broadcasting. It comprises all of the PBS member stations in the U.S. state of North Dakota.
The state network is available via fla ...
(now Prairie Public), the
PBS
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affiliate which also provides radio and public media services serving North Dakota and the surrounding region.
Career in the state legislature
In 1984, he won a seat in the
North Dakota House of Representatives
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North Dakota is divided into between 40 and 54 legislative districts apportioned by population as d ...
. He won re-election in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, and 1998. He represented rural
Casselton,
Cass County.
He served as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee for four years. In the 1999-2000 interim, he also chaired the Budget Section, the legislative panel charged with reviewing spending issues between sessions.
U.S. Senate elections
1988
In December 1987, Dalrymple announced he would run for the U.S. Senate. He lost the Republican nomination to state House majority leader
Earl Strinden
Earl Strinden (November 28, 1931 – October 18, 2022) was an American Republican politician in the state of North Dakota and president of the University of North Dakota Alumni Association, serving from 1974 until his retirement in 2000. He served ...
. Strinden lost the general election to incumbent Democratic U.S. senator
Quentin Burdick
Quentin Northrup Burdick (June 19, 1908 – September 8, 1992) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, he represented North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1960) and the U.S ...
.
1992
On September 8, 1992, Burdick died. Governor
George Sinner appointed Burdick's widow
Jocelyn Burdick
Jocelyn Louise Burdick (''née'' Birch; February 6, 1922 – December 26, 2019) was an American politician from North Dakota who briefly served as a Democratic United States senator during 1992. She was the first woman from the state to hold thi ...
to fill the vacancy until a special election was held. She was not a candidate for election to the rest of the term. On September 17, 1992, Dalrymple announced he would run in the special election. In October 1992, he won the Republican nomination.
Kent Conrad
Gaylord Kent Conrad (born March 12, 1948) is a former American politician who was a United States Senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party. First elec ...
, who held North Dakota's other Senate seat at the time but had planned to retire from it (he decided to run to fill the Burdick vacancy), defeated Dalrymple 63–34%. Dalrymple only won three counties in the state:
Billings
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,
McIntosh
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Products and brands
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* Mackintosh's or John Mackintosh and Co., later Rowntree Mackintosh, former UK confectionery company now part of Nestl ...
, and
Sheridan.
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota
Dalrymple was elected as
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota
The lieutenant governor of North Dakota is a political office in North Dakota. The lieutenant governor's duty is to preside as President of the Senate, and is responsible for legislative relations, the state budget and agribusiness development. ...
in 2000 on the Republican ticket with
John Hoeven
John Henry Hoeven III ( ; born March 13, 1957) is an American banker and politician serving as the senior U.S. senator from North Dakota, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Hoeven served as the 31st governor of No ...
. He was re-elected as Lieutenant Governor in 2004 and 2008 along with then-Governor Hoeven.
Governor of North Dakota
Then-Lt. Governor Dalrymple became governor following the resignation of
John Hoeven
John Henry Hoeven III ( ; born March 13, 1957) is an American banker and politician serving as the senior U.S. senator from North Dakota, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Hoeven served as the 31st governor of No ...
, who was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 2, 2010. The transition took place in accordance with the gubernatorial succession provisions of the
Constitution of North Dakota
The Constitution of North Dakota is the most basic legal document in the U.S. state of North Dakota. It consists of a preamble and fourteen articles.
Amendments to the North Dakota Constitution have always required the approval of a majority of vo ...
. Two days later, on November 4, 2010, Dalrymple designated now-former U.S. attorney for North Dakota
Drew Wrigley
Drew Howard Wrigley (born October 10, 1965) is an American attorney, lawyer, and politician from North Dakota. Wrigley currently serves as the attorney general of North Dakota after being appointed to the position by Governor Doug Burgum followin ...
as his successor to become Lieutenant Governor, once his transition to the governor's office was completed.
On December 7, 2010, Hoeven officially tendered his resignation as governor to
Alvin Jaeger
Alvin A. Jaeger (born December 10, 1943) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who had served as the Secretary of State of North Dakota from 1993 to 2023. Jaeger was elected to the office in 1992, and re-elected in 1996, 2 ...
, the North Dakota secretary of state. Later that day, in front of a joint session of the
North Dakota Legislative Assembly
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and before a statewide television audience, Dalrymple was sworn in as governor, and then Wrigley was sworn in as lieutenant governor.
On November 1, 2011, Governor Dalrymple announced on a multi city tour of North Dakota that he would run for a full four-year term as governor, with Wrigley as his running mate. In 2012, Dalrymple handily defeated
Democratic challenger
Ryan Taylor in the
general election
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to serve a full term as governor.
North Dakota does not have a term limit for governor or lieutenant governor, meaning that any individual could be elected to and serve an unlimited number of terms.
On August 24, 2015, Governor Dalrymple announced that he would not seek reelection in
2016
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.
Personal life
Dalrymple married the former Betsy Wood in 1971, and they have four daughters.
Electoral history
2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests
In 2016, a
series of protests was held against the
Dakota Access Pipeline
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) or Bakken pipeline is a underground pipeline in the United States that has the ability to transport up to 750,000 barrels of light sweet crude oil per day. It begins in the shale oil fields of the Bakken Forma ...
(DAPL), by groups including ReZpect Our Water and
Native American tribes including the
Standing Rock Sioux
The Standing Rock Reservation ( lkt, Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ) lies across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic " Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaks ...
. Dalrymple called in the
North Dakota National Guard
The North Dakota National Guard consists of the:
*North Dakota Army National Guard
* North Dakota Air National Guard
It is part of the North Dakota Office of the Adjutant General. The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services and North Dakota ...
's 191st Military Police to deal with protesters.
See also
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1992 United States Senate special election in North Dakota
The 1992 United States Senate special election in North Dakota was held on December 4, 1992, to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by the late Quentin Burdick. Burdick's widow, Jocelyn Burdick, was appointed as a temporary replacement un ...
References
External links
Governor Jack Dalrympleofficial North Dakota government website
Jack Dalrymple for Governor*
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Living people
Republican Party members of the North Dakota House of Representatives
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Candidates in the 1988 United States elections
Candidates in the 1992 United States elections