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N.D. (AP) – MINOT, N.D. (AP) North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is getting another chance to run for the job.

North Dakota Republican convention delegates on Sunday in Minot endorsed Goehring to run for the position this fall. He faced an intraparty challenge for the position from Judy Estenson, a nurse and farmer from Warwick. Delegates voted 624-245 in favor of Goehring.

Former Governor John Hoeven appointed Goehring to the job in April 2009 when Democrat Roger Johnson resigned. Before that, Goehring ran twice against Johnson and lost both times.

Ryan Taylor, a rancher and former Democratic state Senate leader from Towner, will face Goehring for agriculture commissioner this fall.

And the longest-serving Republican official in the North Dakota Capitol has the party’s endorsement to seek another term. Secretary of State Al Jaeger was first elected in 1992 to the office that is best known for supervising elections.

North Dakota Republican convention delegates picked Jaeger on Sunday in Minot as their favored candidate to run for re-election. Jaeger faces a challenge in November from Democrat April Fairfield of Bismarck.

Fairfield served in the state Senate from 2002 to 2006 and in the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2002, representing Eldridge, a small town near Jamestown.

Meanwhile, Public Service Commission Chairman Brian Kalk has the approval of Republican convention delegates to seek his second six-year term. Kalk went unchallenged for the endorsement on Sunday in Minot.

Kalk is a Bottineau native who served for 20 years in the Marine Corps before retiring as a major in 2006. Kalk taught at North Dakota State University before he was elected to the PSC in 2008.

Fargo businessman Todd Reisenauer got the Democratic endorsement last week at the party’s convention in Fargo.