Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Winfield Scott Hammond (November 17, 1863 to December 30, 1915) was an American politican.He was a Democrat. He served from Minnesota in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1907 to January 6, 1915 . He was the 18th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1915 until his death December 30, 1915. He was the second governor of Minnesota to die in office. Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist succeeded to the governorship to fill the vacancy left by Hammond's death. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.