List of North Dakota Superintendents of Public Instruction

The following is a list of North Dakota Superintendents of Public Instruction. The office was on a party-affiliated ballot until the year 1913, since then it has been on the no party ballot, although most Superintendents have had some association with one party or another. The Superintendent served a two-year term office until 1964. Since then, they have been elected to four-year terms.

# Name Term Party
1 William Mitchell 1889–1890 Republican
2 William J. Clapp 1890 Republican
3 John Ogden 1891–1892 Republican
4 Laura J. Eisenhuth 1893–1894 Independent
5 Emma F. Bates 1895–1896 Republican
6 John G. Halland 1897–1900 Republican
7 Joseph M. Devine 1901–1902 Republican
8 Walter L. Stockwell 1903–1910 Republican
9 Edwin J. Taylor 1911–1916 Republican
10 Neil C. MacDonald 1917–1918
11 Minnie J. Nelson 1919–1926
12 Bertha R. Palmer 1927–1932
13 Arthur E. Thompson 1933–1946
14 Garfield B. Nordrum 1946–1951
15 Marvell F. Peterson 1951–1976
16 Howard Snortland 1977–1980
17 Joseph Crawford 1981–1984
18 Wayne G. Sanstead 1985–2013 Democratic/Democratic-NPL
19 Kirsten Kay Baesler 2013– Republican

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