Samuel Rinnah Van Sant

Infobox Governor
name=Samuel Rinnah Van Sant


caption=Samuel Rinnah Van Sant
order= 15^th
office= Governor of Minnesota
term_start= January 7, 1901
term_end= January 4, 1905
lieutenant= Lyndon Ambrose Smith, Ray W. Jones
predecessor= John Lind
successor= John Albert Johnson
birth_date= birth date|1844|5|11|mf=y
birth_place= Rock Island, Illinois, United States
death_date= death date and age|1936|10|3|1844|5|11|mf=y
death_place= Attica, Indiana, United States
party= Republican
profession= Riverboat captain and boat owner - logging transportation
spouse= Ruth Hall
religion=
footnotes=

Samuel Van Sant (May 11 1844ndash October 3 1936) was an American politician.

Born in Rock Island, Illinois, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from January 1893 to January 1897 and served as Speaker of the House. Van Sant served as the 15th Governor of Minnesota from January 7, 1901 to January 4, 1905, the first to serve a four-year term. He was a member of the Republican party.

He was a proud Civil War veteran with service in the 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic for a year, 1909–1910. He was known to his friends as "Captain Sam." He died in 1936 aged 92 in Attica, Indiana.

External links

* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbum:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbum56740div39)) SAMUEL RINNAH VAN SANT FIFTEENTH GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA January 7, 1901, to January 4, 1905.] via Lives of the governors of Minnesota, Library of Congress.

References

* [http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=11054 Minnesota Legislators Past and Present]