Former Dakota Territory Gov. Michael McCormack was only in office for nine days, but his decision to pardon a man found guilty of second degree manslaughter proved influential.
Former Dakota Territory Gov. Michael McCormack was only in office for nine days, but his decision to pardon a man found guilty of second degree manslaughter proved influential.
2/5/2007: History books chronicling the names of the Governors of Dakota Territory list ten governors from 1861, when Dakota Territory was created, up to 1889, when North and South Dakota went their separate ways as states, but on this date in 1887, none of those ten individuals on the list were sitting in the Governor's chair. Did Dakota Territory have an eleventh governor?