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Notes from North Dakota s political conventions | High Plains Reader, Fargo ND

Notes from North Dakota s political conventions | High Plains Reader, Fargo ND
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March 16: Anti-Dancing Bill Goes Missing

Not every bill proposed in the Legislature passes and becomes a law, but in 1935, one bill just plain went missing.

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Thomas Moodie

1/7/2011: Thomas Moodie, the nineteenth governor of North Dakota, took office on this date in 1935. Moodie is best known as the state’s shortest-serving governor, serving only five weeks before being removed from office by the state’s Supreme Court.

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Two Game and Fish Commissioners

Turbulent politics gripped North Dakota in the 1930s, when four men served as governor in a seven-month period. Gov. Bill Langer was removed from office by the state Supreme Court due to his federal felony conviction on corruption charges. Lt. Gov. Ole Olson succeeded him, but served only a few months and didn’t run for election.

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