A list of governors from the state of South Dakota.[1]
Contents
- 1 Dakota Territory Governors
- 2 Governors of the State of South Dakota
- 3 Further reading
- 4 Notes
Dakota Territory Governors[edit]
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[edit]
| 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ↑ http://www.netstate.com/states/government/sd_formergov.htm
- ↑ http://www.state.sd.us/governor/
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