Current Position: Governor of North Dakota
Affiliation: Republican
Former Positions: State Senator from 2012 – 2018, US Representative since 2019

Armstrong was a partner at Reichert Armstrong, with offices in Grand Forks and Dickinson.

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The White House is on a censorship mission – pressuring private companies to undermine free speech they don’t agree with. We’re demanding they stop.

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Current Position: Governor since 2016
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: Tech Entrepeneur from 1983 – 2007

After graduating from college in 1978, and getting an MBA in 1980, he mortgaged inherited farmland in 1983 to invest in Great Plains Software in Fargo. Becoming the company’s president in 1984, he grew Great Plains into a successful large software company. Burgum sold the company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001.

e has served as board chairman for Atlassian and SuccessFactors. Burgum is the founder of Kilbourne Group, a Fargo-based real-estate development firm, and also is the co-founder of Arthur Ventures, a software venture capital group.

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Preliminary figures show our 2019-21 state budget exceeded expectations with a $1B positive balance, nearly $320M more than projected. These robust revenues speak to the strength of ND’s economy and our conservative approach to forecasting and budgeting.

 
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