Jack Dalrymple
| Jack Dalrymple | |
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| 32nd Governor of North Dakota | |
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In office December 7, 2010 – December 15, 2016 |
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| Lieutenant | Drew Wrigley |
| Preceded by | John Hoeven |
| Succeeded by | Doug Burgum |
| 36th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota | |
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In office December 15, 2000 – December 7, 2010 |
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| Governor | John Hoeven |
| Preceded by | Rosemarie Myrdal |
| Succeeded by | Drew Wrigley |
| Member of the North Dakota House of Representatives from the 22nd district |
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In office 1985–2000 |
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| Preceded by | ??? |
| Succeeded by | Vonnie Pietsch |
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John Stewart Dalrymple III October 16, 1948 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Betsy Wood |
| Children | 4 daughters |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) |
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John Stewart "Jack" Dalrymple III (born October 16, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and a former wheat farmer who served as the 32nd Governor of North Dakota, from 2010 to 2016. He was previously the 36th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 2000 until December 2010, when Governor John Hoeven resigned and Dalrymple succeeded him.
Dalrymple served as a state representative for eight consecutive terms, from 1984 through 2000. He was a candidate for the U.S. Senate twice in 1988 and 1992.
Dalrymple was born on October 16, 1948 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Mary Josephine (Knoblauch) and John Stewart Dalrymple, Jr. He spent many of his formative years in Casselton, North Dakota 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 in 1955, his grandfather, John S. Dalrymple, Sr., Oliver's son, "still owned about 25,000 acres of farmland."
In 1966, he from the Blake School (Minneapolis), 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, Dalrymple graduated with honors from Yale College with the Class of 1970, with an A.B. in American Studies.
Dalrymple returned after graduation to North Dakota, going to work managing the family's Dalrymple Farm in the Red River Valley, a durum wheat 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).
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