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8 unusual facts about Rudy Perpich


Center for Victims of Torture

CVT was founded as a result of actions by Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich.

Fred C. Norton

Norton resigned from the House in June 1987, accepting an appointment to the Minnesota Court of Appeals by Governor Rudy Perpich.

Markham, Minnesota

Markham's southern border is located 23 miles north of Island Lake on County Road 4 (Governor Rudy Perpich Memorial Drive); and Markham's northern border is County Road 16 (Townline Road), CR 16 serves as a direct east–west route in northeast Minnesota between U.S. Highway 53 and Silver Bay.

Minnesota Discovery Center

The property also includes the Iron Man (statue), and a memorial to Rudy Perpich and holds historical documents and artifacts related to mining in the Iron Range.

Pheasants Forever

The keynote speaker at the inaugural Pheasants Forever banquet was Gov. Rudy Perpich, who later signed the state’s first pheasant stamp bill.

Ruth A. Myers

She asked Governor Rudy Perpich to be appointed to the Minnesota State Board of Education (SBE).

Terri J. Stoneburner

Stoneburner was appointed to the fifth district court bench by Rudy Perpich in April of 1990.

Warren Spannaus

In 1982, he ran for Governor of Minnesota as the DFL-endorsed candidate but lost the primary election to former DFL Governor Rudy Perpich, who went on to win the general election.


Alice Hausman

Hausman was first elected in a 1989 special election after Rep. Ann Wynia resigned to accept an appointment by Governor Rudy Perpich as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Muriel Humphrey Brown

Humphrey was appointed as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party by Rudy Perpich, the governor of Minnesota, to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of her husband, and served from January 25, 1978 to November 7, 1978 in the 95th Congress.


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