Wayne Godfrey Sanstead (born April 16, 1935)[4] served as the North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1985 to January 1, 2013, and from 1972 to 1981 as the 31st lieutenant governor of North Dakota.
[1] Sanstead married Mary Jane Bober[5] on June 16, 1957.
from St. Olaf College, and in 1967 his Master of Arts[2] in Speech[3] from Northwestern University.
[3] Stanstead earned his doctorate in secondary education from the University of North Dakota.
[7] Previously, Sanstead served eight years in the North Dakota House of Representatives (1965–1970), two years in the N.D. Senate (1971–1973), and as the 31st Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota serving under Governor Art Link (1973–1981).