resulted in renaming the school after Alan Page, the first African-American Minnesota Supreme Court justice. He was the namesake of the Liberty Ship SS Alexander Ramsey launched in 1942. References Retrieved on 2009-03-22 Alexander Ramsey U.S. Army biography The Political Graveyard External links Biographical information, gubernatorial records, and Ramsey's personal papers are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society. |- |- |- |- |- 1815 births 1903 deaths People from Hummelstown, Pennsylvania Methodists from Minnesota Governors of Minnesota Governors of Minnesota Territory Mayors of Saint Paul, Minnesota United States Secretaries of War Minnesota Republicans People of Minnesota in the American Civil War Minnesota Whigs Republican Party United States senators from Minnesota Hayes administration cabinet members Union (American Civil War) state governors Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Republican Party governors of Minnesota 19th-century American politicians Ramsey County, Minnesota