The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-22
.M|NNES01A'S
NEW GOVERNOR
Is the First to Succeed to Place
Through the Death of
Predecessor

St. Paul, Sept. 22.-Adolph @. Eber-
hart of Mankato is the seventeenth
governor of the state of Minnesota.
He took the oath of Office yesterday
before Judge Charles N. Start, chief
justice of the state supreme court
Edward E. Smith of Minneapolis, who
under the law becomes lieutenant
governor, as president pro tempore
of the senate, will take his oath of
office next week.
The ceremony before Judge Start
was simple in the extreme. Mr.. Eber-
hart had been Informed by the attor-
ney general that the governors sigma
ture was necessary on requisition
papers and he decided to take the
oath of office at .nce.
Mr.. Eberhart and Mr.. Smith, with
Senator George P. Wilson of Minne-
apolis and several state officials, went
to the consultation room of the SUI
preme court at 1 a. NJ. yesterday and
met Judge Start. Judge Start de-
clared the office of governor vacant
under the law and administered the
oath to Mr.. Eberhart. Mr.. Smith
stated that under the circumstances
he did not wish to take the oath as
lieutenant governor at this time.
No Immediate Change.
Governor Eberhart announced there
would be no immediate changes in the
governors Office or among other state
employees.
II took the oath of office that l
might issue proclamation setting
aside a day of mourning for Governor
Johnson" said Governor Eberhart "It
was necessary also that should sign
requisition papers. l shall transact
only such executive business as is
absolutely necessary during the next
few days."
Adolph o. Eberhart is the third of
Minnesota's lieutenant governors to
becor'" governor because of a va
cancy in the governors chair, but the
first to as the Office by reason of the
death of "'s predecessor. The other
governors who attained their Offices
in this way were Henry A. Swift in
1863 e. David NJ. Clough in 1895.
Henry A. Swift was state senator
when Lieutenant Governor Ignatius
Donnelly was elected member of
congress. He was Immediately chos-
en- president of the senate and sue
ceeded Governor Alexander Ramsey
as governor when Governor Ramsey
was elected United States senator.
Lieutenant Governor Clough became
governor when Governor Knute Nell
son was chosen United States sena-
tor in 1895.
Fourteenth Republican Governor.
In Mr.. Eberhart the state has it's
fourteenth Republican governor and
It's first Republican governor since
1904.
Mr.. Eberhart Is a lawyer. He was
born on a farm in the province of
Vermland. Sweden. thirty-nine years
ago. In 1881 his parents came to Min
nesota and he followed the following
year. The family settled on a farm
near Mankato. After living in Min
nesota two years the father and moth
er moved =, Nebraska.
Mr.. Eberhart attended the common
sch oils and graduated from Gustavus
Adolphus college. In 1895 he entered
the law Office of Judge Gray at Man
kato. He has served as deputy clerk
of the United States circuit court and
district courts and as United States
commissioner for Minnesota He is a
director in the First National bank of
Mankato.
In 1903 Mr.. Eberhart was elected
to the state senate. He served one
term, becoming q leader in the body
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