Entry Into Politics
Perpich first entered into politics by serving on the Hibbing school board in 1955 and 1956. The board gained notability for instituting a policy to provide equal pay to both male and female workers. In 1962, he was elected to the Minnesota Senate, representing the old 63rd District, which included portions of St. Louis County in the northeastern part of the state. He was re-elected in 1966.
In 1970, Perpich was elected the 39th lieutenant governor of Minnesota. He was re-elected in 1974 on a ticket with Governor Wendell Anderson. (Prior to 1974, the governor and lieutenant governor were elected separately.) He became governor when Anderson resigned in 1976 to take the United States Senate seat vacated by Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the United States. He thus became the first Iron Range resident to hold the office.
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