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{{Officeholder
|name=John Thune
|image=Thune.jpg
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Kimberley Thune
|religion=Evangelicalism
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=South Dakota
|terms=January 3, 2005-present
|preceded=[[Tom Daschle]]
|former=n
|succeeded=
}}
{{Officeholder/representative
|state=South Dakota
|district=at-large
|terms=January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003
|preceded=Tim Johnson
|former=n
|succeeded=Bill Janklow
}}
}}
'''John Thune''' (born January 7, 1961 in Murdo, South Dakota) is the junior [[United States Senator]] from [[South Dakota]] and a member of the [[Republican Party]]. After a failed bid for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 2002, Thune won the South Dakota senatorial race in 2004 by beating Senate Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]]. He is a outspoken [[conservative]] and has voted with a majority of his [[Republican]] colleagues over ninety percent of the time during the current [[110th Congress|Congress]].<ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/t000250/</reF> Thune serves as Vice Chairman of the Republican Conference and is on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, Armed Services Committee, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
'''John Thune''' (born January 7, 1961 in Murdo, South Dakota) is the junior [[United States Senator]] from [[South Dakota]] and a member of the [[Republican Party]]. After a failed bid for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 2002, Thune won the South Dakota senatorial race in 2004 by beating Senate Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]]. He is a outspoken [[conservative]] and has voted with a majority of his [[Republican]] colleagues over ninety percent of the time during the current [[110th Congress|Congress]].<ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/t000250/</reF> Thune serves as Vice Chairman of the Republican Conference and is on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, Armed Services Committee, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.