On this date in 1938, the Crown Prince of Sweden, Gustaf Adolf, visits the Twin Cities on the occasion of the New Sweden Tercentenary celebration. New Sweden was a Swedish colony scattered along the lower reaches of the Delaware River Valley in the present-day states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania between 1638 to 1655.
Politics
1857-07-13
On this date in 1857, Democratic and Republican delegates meet in the St. Paul Capitol building in an effort to frame the constitution for the future state of Minnesota, allowing it to enter the Union.
1849-06-25
On this date in 1849, Minnesota’s first territorial governor, Alexander Ramsey, arrives in St. Paul with his wife Anna, their son, Alexander, and a nurse. The governor and his family had stayed with with Henry H. Sibley at his home in Mendota for about a month prior to travelling to St. Paul. Ramsey was born […]
1870-06-23
On this date in 1870, Adolph O. Eberhart is born in Sweden. He would become Minnesota’s seventeenth governor upon the death of John A. Johnson in 1909 and would be elected to the office in 1910. During his tenure he would sign into law a direct primary bill. He died on December 6, 1944. (MNopedia)
1849-06-11
On this date in 1849, the first three judicial districts in the Minnesota Territory are established by territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey. The first district includes the region between the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers and holds court in Stillwater presided over by Judge Aaron Goodrich. The second district consists of all of the northeastern part […]
