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Jack Dalrymple
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Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple |
Elected in 2000 and re-elected in November 2004, Jack Dalrymple is North Dakota's 35th lieutenant governor. He brings an outstanding record in farming, business and legislative leadership to the lieutenant governor's office.
Born Oct. 16, 1948, he grew up in Casselton on the family farm, which was established in 1875 as North Dakota's first large-scale wheat farm.
Dalrymple graduated with honors from Yale University in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in American Studies and then returned to North Dakota to manage the farming operations. He and Betsy Wood were married in 1971, and they have four daughters.
He became active in the community serving on the Casselton Jobs Development Commission and helped found Share House, Inc., a Fargo residential treatment program for recovering alcoholics and drug dependents.
Dalrymple came to the North Dakota Legislature in 1985, representing a rural Cass County House district. He served eight terms, including six years as chairman of the influential House Appropriations Committee. In the 1999-2000 interim, he also chaired the Budget Section, the legislative panel charged with reviewing spending issues between sessions. He currently presides over the North Dakota Senate and is responsible for legislative relations, the state budget and agri-business development. He also serves as chairman of the North Dakota Commission on Education Improvement.
Dalrymple is a nationally recognized leader in value-added agriculture. He chairs the board of the Carrington, N.D.-based Dakota Growers Pasta Company, the third-largest manufacturer and marketer of dry pasta products in North America. The company operates as a cooperative of more than 1,000 durum growers and mills about 12 million bushels of its own durum wheat each year. His work in helping found the company earned him the 2007 Ernst and Young Midwest Master Entrepreneur of the Year award. Dalrymple also serves as chairman of the National Lieutenant Governors Association and as chairman of the North Dakota Trade Office.
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