If Gov. Tim Walz stepped down to become vice president, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan would succeed him and become Minnesota’s first female and Native American governor. Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, would also be the first Native American woman to serve as a governor in U.S. history. The only incumbent Native American governor is Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma. Minnesota’s Constitution clearly lays out a line of succession. If the governor were to vacate his office, the state’s lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, would take his place. The last presiding officer of the Minnesota Senate, DFL Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, would fill the role of lieutenant governor. The ascension of Flanagan and Champion would mark historic milestones: Flanagan would be Minnesota’s first female and Native American governor, and Champion would be the state’s first Black lieutenant governor, according to the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Read more at the li...