Remembering Rudy Perpich, the governor who turned 'Outstate' into 'Greater Minnesota'

Forty years ago Nov. 2, Rudy Perpich was elected governor of Minnesota, returning for two full terms to the office he'd previously occupied for a partial term. He would become Minnesota's longest-serving governor, and the only one to hail from the Iron Range.

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