Former Minnesota Governor Al Quie (Photo credit: Minnesota Historical Society)
WAYZATA, Minn. (KFGO) – Al Quie, who served as Minnesota governor after a long career in Congress has died at the age of 99.
Quie died Friday after living his final years at an assisted living community in Wayzata.
The life-long Republican who was a third-generation dairy farmer never lost an election, serving twenty years as District 1 US Representative from southern Minnesota.
He was governor for one term after upsetting incumbent Democrat Rudy Perpich in 1978.
At the time of his death, Quie was Minnesota’s oldest living governor and was also the oldest living former member of Congress.
After that, Quie was re-elected 10 times, accumulating as much as 70 percent of the vote when he defeated DFLer Charles Thompson in 1972.
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