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The North Dakota Secretary of State is an elected office in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The current Secretary of State is Alvin Jaeger. The general duties of the Secretary of State include being the custodian of the state's Great Seal and other official state documents, recording the official acts of the Governor, distributing copies of legislative resolutions, and recording original bills and resolutions from each biennial Legislative Assembly. Other duties of the office include those pertaining to statewide elections, licensing within the state, and recording trademarks.
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History
Since the creation of the office with the state's constitution in 1889, the state has seen a total of 14 Secretaries of State, the least number among any of the state offices created in that year. This is attributed to the record-breaking 34-year tenure of Ben Meier, which was and still is the longest of any state-level Secretary of State in the nation. The office has been held by the state's Democratic Party only once since its creation; for four years from 1989 to 1992. At all other times, the office has been held by the North Dakota Republican Party. The Secretary of State originally served a two-year term, but this was extended to four in 1964 by a constitutional amendment.
List of Secretaries of State
The following is a list of Secretaries of State of North Dakota.[1]
Number of North Dakota Secretaries of State by party affiliation Party Secretaries Republican 13 Democratic-NPL 1 # Name Term Party 1 John Flittie 1889–1892 Republican 2 Christian M. Dahl 1893–1896 Republican 3 Fred Falley 1897–1900 Republican 4 Edward F. Porter 1901–1906 Republican 5 Alfred Blaisdell 1907–1910 Republican 6 Patrick D. Norton 1911–1912 Republican 7 Thomas Hall 1913–1924 Republican 8 Robert Byrne 1925–1934 Republican 9 James D. Gronna 1935–1940 Republican 10 Herman Thorson 1941–1942 Republican 11 Thomas Hall 1943–1954 Republican 12 Ben Meier 1955–1988 Republican 13 Jim Kusler 1989–1992 Democratic-NPL 14 Alvin A. Jaeger 1993– Republican Notes
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