Rudy Perpich

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Rudolph George Perpich Sr. (born Rudolph George Prpić; June 27, 1928 – September 21, 1995) was an American politician who served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from 1976 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He was a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. To date, he is the only governor elected to serve non-consecutive terms in the history of Minnesota. Perpich was born to Croatian American parents in Carson Lake, Minnesota, and graduated from Hibbing High School in 1946. He served in the United States Army for two years before attending Marquette University in Milwaukee as an undergraduate and then a dental student. He graduated in 1954 and returned to Hibbing to practice dentistry. Perpich was elected a state senator in St. Louis County in 1962. He served there until 1970, when he was elected lieutenant governor under Governor Wendell R. Anderson. He was reelected in 1974. In 1976, Perpich was appointed governor of Minnesota after Anderson resigned to fill a seat in the U...

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