Whatever happened to the governor of ND in 1935? His name was Thomas Moodie.?

Answer 1

He was elected to office, and 5 weeks later it was determined that he didn't live in North Dakota for 5 years before the election so he was removed from office. Later he served in a couple of government jobs and died in Spokane Washington.

"After Moodie's inauguration on January 7, 1935, it was revealed that he had voted in a 1932 municipal election in Minnesota. In order to be eligible for governor, an individual has to have lived in the state for five consecutive years before the election. The State Supreme Court determined that Governor Moodie was ineligible to serve, and he was removed from office on February 16, 1935. After his five-week stint as governor, Moodie became an administrator for the North Dakota Federal Housing Administration. He also served as deputy administrator for the State War Finance Committee in Montana. Finally he served as financial editor and confidential agent for the publisher of the Spokane Chronicle. Moodie died in Spokane, Washington on March 3, 1948 at the age of 69."

Answer 2

It was on this day in 1935 that Governor Thomas Moodie had to step down, because the state Supreme Court declared him ineligible to hold office - but wait, let's start over...
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Some of the other leaguers wanted the post to go to democrat Thomas Moodie, a newspaper editor from Williston. Well, Moodie won the race against Mrs. Langer and became governor on January 7th, 1935.
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Bill Langer, meanwhile, discovered that Moodie had voted in Minneapolis in 1930.
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State law demanded that a governor "shall have resided in the state for five consecutive years preceding the election," which shouldn't have been a problem for Moodie - he had been living in North Dakota for more than 35 years. But between August 1929 and April 1931, he worked for the Minneapolis Tribune as an editorial writer. After only five weeks, the Supreme Court ruled that he didn't fulfill his residency requirements and disqualified him. http://www.zoominfo.com/people/moodie_thomas_322416537.aspx