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Alexander Ramsey of Pennsylvania, 1865-1880. Ramsey, Hon. Alexander of PA, Senator from Minnesota, Gov. of Minnesota 1860-1863, between 1865 and 1880. [Politician: first Territorial Governor of Minnesota; mayor of St. Paul; Secretary of War. Involved in the repression of Native Americans, he wrote: "The Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the State"].