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South Dakota: Secretaries of State



South Dakota Secretaries of State, 1889-2010 (May be incomplete!)
Amund O. Ringsrud 1889-93 Thomas Thorson 1893-97 William H. Roddle 1897-1901 O. C. Berg 1901-05 David D. Wipf 1905-09 Samuel C. Polley 1909-13 Frank P. Glasner 1913-15 Frank M. Rood 1915-19 C. A. Burkhart 1919-22 Clarence E. Coyne 1922-27 Gladys Pyle 1927-31 Elizabeth Coyne 1931-33 Myrtle Morrison 1933-37 Goldie Wells 1937-39 Olive A. Ringsrud 1939-43 Mrs. L. M. Larsen 1943-47 Annamae Riff 1947-51 Geraldine Ostroot 1951-57 Clara Halls 1957-59 Selma Sandness 1959-61 Essie Wiedenman 1961-65 Alma Larson 1965-73 Lorna B. Herseth 1973-79 Alice Kundert 1979-87 Joyce Hazeltine 1987-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1889 Oct 1: Amund O. Ringsrud (Rep), elected; Otto Pemiller (Dem), defeated.
  • 1892 Nov 8: Thomas Thorson (Rep), elected; S. G. Morgan (Ind), defeated; John L. Norris (Dem), defeated.
  • 1894 Nov 6: Thomas Thorson (Rep), elected; J. K. Johnson (Ind), defeated; J. L. Morris (Dem), defeated; J. F. Hanson (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1896 Nov 3: William H. Roddle (Rep), elected; J. W. Harden (People's), defeated; C. M. Peck (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1898 Nov 8: William H. Roddle (Rep), elected; George Sparling (Fusion), defeated; G. A. Grant (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1920 Nov 2: C. A. Burkhart (Rep), elected; William E. Nielsen (Nonpartisan), defeated; Jorgen J. Boe (Dem), defeated.
  • 1922: C. A. Burkhart, died in office.
  • 1952 Nov 4: Geraldine Ostroot (Rep), elected; Lorraine Gunderson (Dem), defeated.
  • 1954 Nov 2: Geraldine Ostroot (Rep), elected; Selma Sandness (Dem), defeated.
  • 1994 Nov 8: Joyce Hazeltine (Rep), elected; Linda Lea Viken (Dem), defeated.
  • 2010 Nov 2: Jason Gant (Rep), elected; Ben Nesselhuf (Dem), defeated; Lori Stacey (Constitution), defeated.

     

     


     
       
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