Governors of South Dakota

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]

1. ↑ http://www.netstate.com/states/government/sd_formergov.htm
2. ↑ http://www.state.sd.us/governor/

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