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A list of governors from the state of South Dakota.[1]
Dakota Territory Governors
Note: Dakota Territory included both present-day North and South Dakota.
| Name | Years
|
| William Jayne
| 1861-1863
|
| Newton Edmunds
| 1863-1866
|
| Andrew Jackson Faulk
| 1866-1869
|
| John A. Burbank
| 1869-1873
|
| John L. Pennington
| 1874-1878
|
| William A. Howard
| 1878-1880
|
| Nehemiah G. Ordway
| 1880-1884
|
| Gilbert A. Pierce
| 1884-1886
|
| Louis K. Church
| 1887-1889
|
| Arthur C. Mellette
| 1889
|
Governors of the State of South Dakota
| Name | Party | Years
|
| Arthur Calvin Mellette
| Republican
| 1889-1893
|
| Charles Henry Sheldon
| Republican
| 1893-1897
|
| Andrew Ericson Lee
| Populist Democrat
| 1897-1901
|
| Charles Nelson Herreid
| Republican
| 1901-1905
|
| Samuel Harrison Elrod
| Republican
| 1905-1907
|
| Coe Isaac Crawford
| Republican
| 1907-1909
|
| Robert Scadden Vessey
| Republican
| 1909-1913
|
| Frank Michael Byrne
| Republican
| 1913-1917
|
| Peter Norbeck
| Republican
| 1917-1921
|
| William Henry McMaster
| Republican
| 1921-1925
|
| Carl Gunderson
| Republican
| 1925-1927
|
| William John Bulow
| Democrat
| 1927-1931
|
| Warren Everett Green
| Republican
| 1931-1933
|
| Thomas Matthew Berry
| Democrat
| 1933-1937
|
| Leslie Jensen
| Republican
| 1937-1939
|
| Harlan John Bushfield
| Republican
| 1939-1943
|
| Merrill Quentin Sharpe
| Republican
| 1943-1947
|
| George Theodore Mickelson
| Republican
| 1947-1951
|
| Sigurd Anderson
| Republican
| 1951-1955
|
| Joseph Jacob Foss
| Republican
| 1955-1959
|
| Ralph E. Herseth
| Democrat
| 1959-1961
|
| Archie M. Gubbrud
| Republican
| 1961-1965
|
| Nils Andreas Boe
| Republican
| 1965-1969
|
| Frank Leroy Farrar
| Republican
| 1969-1971
|
| Richard Francis Kneip
| Democrat
| 1971-1978
|
| Harvey L. Wollman
| Democrat
| 1978-1979
|
| William John Janklow
| Republican
| 1979-1987, 1995-2003
|
| George Speaker Mickelson
| Republican
| 1987-1993
|
| Walter Dale Miller
| Republican
| 1993-1995
|
| M. Michael Rounds[2]
| Republican
| 2003-2011
|
| Dennis Daugaard
| Republican
| 2011-present
|
Further reading
- Oyos, Lynwood E., ed. Over a Century of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial and State Governors. Sioux Falls, S.D.: Augustana College, Center for Western Studies, 1987. 224 pp.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.netstate.com/states/government/sd_formergov.htm
- ↑ http://www.state.sd.us/governor/
