John H. Worst | |
Office: | 4th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota |
Governor: | Roger Allin |
Term Start: | 1895 |
Term End: | 1897 |
Predecessor: | Elmer D. Wallace |
Successor: | Joseph M. Devine |
Office1: | President pro tempore of the North Dakota Senate |
Term Start1: | January 3, 1893 |
Term End1: | January 8, 1895 |
Predecessor1: | Nahum B. Pinkham |
Successor1: | John E. Haggart |
State Senate2: | North Dakota |
District2: | 26th |
Term Start2: | November 19, 1889 |
Term End2: | January 8, 1895 |
Preceded2: | None (office established) |
Succeeded2: | John H. Wishek |
Birth Name: | John Henry Worst |
Birth Date: | 23 December 1850 |
Birth Place: | Ashland County, Ohio, U.S. |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Occupation: | educator, academic administrator |
John Henry Worst (December 23, 1850 – September 25, 1945) was a North Dakota Republican Party politician and school administrator. He served as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (1895-1897) under Governor Roger Allin. Worst also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1889 to 1894.[1] [2] [3]
Worst has also involved in education. In the 1880s, he was elected superintendent of schools for Emmons County and served in that role for six years.[4] He served as the president of the North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University) from 1895 to 1916.
Worst served as the Commissioner of Immigration for North Dakota from 1919 to 1923.