Ruth Meiers

{{Short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Ruth Meiers

|birth_date = {{birth date|1925|11|6}}

|death_date = {{death date and age|1987|3|19|1925|11|6}}

|office = 33rd Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota

|term_start = January 1, 1985

|term_end = March 19, 1987

|governor = George A. Sinner

|predecessor = Ernest Sands

|successor = Lloyd Omdahl

}}

Ruth Meiers (November 6, 1925 – March 19, 1987){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AraGAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ruth+Meiers%22+AND+%221925%22|editor=Alan Ehrenhalt |title=North Dakota Legislative Manual|year=1985 |publisher=Congressional Quarterly Press|isbn=0871873753}} was an American politician and the first female lieutenant governor of North Dakota. She became the 33rd lieutenant governor in 1985. Meiers was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer in 1986 and died in office six months later in March 1987. The Ruth Meiers Hospitality House is named in her honor. Meiers was a social worker in Mountrail County, North Dakota. In 1974, Meiers served in the North Dakota House of Representatives as a Democrat.{{cite news|url=https://nytimes.com/1987/03/21/obituaries/lieut-gov-ruth-meiers-of-north-dakota-dies.html|title=Lieut. Governor Ruth Meiers of North Dakota Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|agency=AP|date=March 21, 1987|accessdate=November 21, 2013}}

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{{s-bef|before=Wayne Sanstead}}

{{s-ttl|title=Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota|years=1984}}

{{s-aft|after=Lloyd Omdahl}}

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{{succession box|before=Ernest Sands|title=Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota|years=1985–1987|after=Lloyd Omdahl}}

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