Minnesota State Auditor
Dayton was elected as Minnesota State Auditor in 1990 and served to 1995. While Auditor, Dayton sought the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1998, but was defeated by Skip Humphrey.
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“Only by the supernatural is a man strong; nothing is so weak as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)