lieutenant death_date birth_date term_end death_place imagesize profession order term_start spouse image name caption predecessor birth_place party office successor religion article_title
albert e. rice 31 october 1905 19 february 1840 january 9 , 1889 st. paul , minnesota , u.s. 230px educator 10th january 5 , 1887 eliza -lrb- 2nd -rrb- bryant -lrb- 1st -rrb- , mary elizabeth wilson andrewmcgill.jpg andrew ryan mcgill andrew ryan mcgill lucius frederick hubbard saegertown , pennsylvania , u.s. republican governor of minnesota william rush merriam methodist andrew ryan mcgill

andrew ryan mcgill

andrew ryan mcgill -lrb- february 19 , 1840 -- october 31 , 1905 -rrb- was an american politician of the united states republican party .
he served as the tenth governor of minnesota from january 5 , 1887 to january 9 , 1889 .
andrew ryan mcgill , the son of angeline -lrb- née martin -rrb- and charles mcgill , was born in saegertown , pennsylvania , on february 19 , 1840 .
andrew 's father , charles dillon mcgill -lrb- 1802 -- 1875 -rrb- , was the youngest son of patrick -lrb- 1762 -- 1832 -rrb- and anna -lrb- née baird -rrb- mcgill .
patrick had emigrated from county antrim , ireland , about 1774 , settling in northumberland , pennsylvania .
in 1795 patrick and anna moved their family to the western part of pennsylvania , homesteading several hundred acres in crawford county .
andrew 's mother , angeline martin -lrb- 1811 -- 1849 -rrb- , was the eldest of armand -lrb- 1785 -- 1861 -rrb- and mary -lrb- née ryan , 1789 -- 1866 -rrb- martin 's nine children .
the martin family also owned land in western pennsylvania .
armand 's brother , lieutenant general charles martin , who commanded troops stationed at fort de boueff -lrb- watertown , pennsylvania -rrb- in the late 1790s , settled in carlisle , pennsylvania .
in 1859 , at the age of nineteen , andrew ryan mcgill moved from pennsylvania to kentucky to become a schoolteacher .
when the civil war began and teaching , work was no longer feasible in kentucky , mcgill left for minnesota , arriving june 10 , 1861 .
he became principal of the public school in st. peter , minnesota , in august 1862 .
in that same year , at the age of 22 , mcgill enlisted in company d , 9th minnesota volunteer infantry .
in 1863 he was discharged for disability .
soon after his discharge he was elected county superintendent of public schools -lrb- nicollet county , minnesota -rrb- , a position he filled for two terms .
from 1865 through 1866 mcgill was the editor and proprietor of the st. peter tribune .
in 1865 he was also elected clerk of the district court of nicollet county for a term of four years .
mcgill took the opportunity to study law under judge horace austin and was admitted to the bar in 1869 .
in 1870 austin was elected governor of minnesota and mcgill was selected as his private secretary .
in 1873 , mcgill was appointed insurance commissioner of the state , a position he held for thirteen years .
in 1886 , the republican state convention nominated mcgill as their candidate for governor of minnesota .
he won the nomination and the election , serving a single , two-year term as governor -lrb- 1887 -- 1889 -rrb- .
during his term he recommended a revision of the railroad laws pertaining to transportation , storage , and grading of wheat , the watering of railroad stocks , a simplification of the tax laws , regulation of liquor , abolition of contract prison labor , establishment of a soldiers ' home , and creation of a bureau of labor statistics .
while not re-elected , mcgill remained active in politics , supporting the presidential candidacy of cushman k. davis -lrb- 1896 -rrb- and serving as state senator from the 37th district , st. paul -lrb- 1899 -- 1905 -rrb- .
mcgill was appointed postmaster of st. paul -lrb- 1900 -rrb- while concurrently serving as senator .
andrew ryan mcgill married eliza e. bryant -lrb- d. 1877 -rrb- , daughter of charles s. bryant , a lawyer and author from st. peter , minnesota .
together they had three children : charles herbert -lrb- b. 1866 -rrb- , robert c. -lrb- b. 1869 -rrb- , and lida b. -lrb- b. 1874 -rrb- .
in 1879 , two years after eliza 's death , andrew married mary e. wilson , daughter of margaret maleena -lrb- née stone -rrb- and joseph carlton wilson , a prominent physician of edinboro , pennsylvania .
mary and andrew had two children : wilson -lrb- b. 1884 -rrb- and thomas -lrb- b. 1889 -rrb- .
