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Albert C. Miller
Albert C. "AC" Miller (born September 30, 1898-October 22, 1979) was an American attorney and the 21st Attorney General of South Dakota between 1961 and 1963 and the Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota from 1941 and 1945. Career AC Miller lived in Kennebec in Lyman County. After a law degree from the University of South Dakota School of Law and admission as a lawyer, he began to work there in his profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party for his political career. Between 1933 and 1940 he sat as a deputy in the House of Representatives of South Dakota , and its chamber's speaker in 1937. Lieutenant Governor In 1940, Miller was elected on the side of Harlan J. Bushfield Harlan John Bushfield (August 6, 1882September 27, 1948) was an American politician from South Dakota. He served as the 16th governor of South Dakota and as a United States senator. A native of Iowa, Bushfield was raised in Miller, South Dakot ...'s Lt. Governor of South D ...
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Attorney General Of South Dakota
The Attorney General of South Dakota is the state attorney general of the U.S. state of South Dakota. The attorney general is elected by popular vote to a four-year term and holds an Executive (government), executive position as the state's chief legal officer. In 1992, the voters approved a Constitutional Amendment to limit all constitutional officers and the governor to two consecutive four year terms. Structure of the office The South Dakota Attorney General's Office represents and provides legal advice to agencies, boards, and commissions of the government of South Dakota. The office represents the state in State court (United States), state and United States federal court, federal court, as well as in Administrative law, administrative adjudication and rulemaking hearings. The office handles felony criminal appeals, advises local prosecutor, prosecutors in the conduct of criminal trial, trials and handles cases at the request of local prosecutors. In addition, the office issue ...
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Lieutenant Governor Of South Dakota
The lieutenant governor of South Dakota is the second-ranking member of the executive branch of South Dakota state government and also serves as presiding officer of the South Dakota Senate. The lieutenant governor succeeds to the officer of governor if the office becomes vacant, and may also serve as acting governor if the governor is incapacitated or absent from the state. Since 1974, the lieutenant governor has been elected on a ticket with the governor. Seven lieutenant governors have gone on to be elected governor in their own right: Charles N. Herreid (1900 & 1902), Frank M. Byrne (1912 & 1914), Peter Norbeck (1916 & 1918), William H. McMaster (1920 & 1922), Carl Gunderson (1924), Nils Boe (1964 & 1966) and Dennis Daugaard (2010 & 2014). Two others, Harvey L. Wollman and Walter Dale Miller, succeeded to the office of governor when it became vacant, but neither won re-election. List of lieutenant governors ;Parties See also * Lieutenant governor (United States) ...
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Kennebec, South Dakota
Kennebec is a town in and county seat of Lyman County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 281 at the 2020 census. History Kennebec was laid out in 1905. Kennebec has served as county seat of Lyman County since 1922. The courthouse dates from 1925. Transportation The highways that run in or near Kennebec are east-west Interstate 90 (I‑90) and South Dakota Highway 273 (SD 273), which is a north-south highway. The one main transportation for Kennebec is by road (I‑90 and SD 273), as there is no airport, municipal or commercial. There are no trains for passengers but the Ringneck & Western Railroad provides freight service to the Wheat Growers' Kennebec Elevator. Geography Kennebec is located at (43.904284, -99.862801). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Kennebec has been assigned the ZIP code 57544 and the FIPS place code 33580. Kennebec is located in section of agricultural use area in Kennebec T ...
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Lyman County, South Dakota
Lyman County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,718. Its county seat is Kennebec. Lyman County was created by the Dakota Territorial Legislature on January 8, 1873, but was not organized until May 21, 1893. Its boundaries were altered in 1891, 1897, 1898, and 1916. The county was named for W. P. Lyman, a politician. History Lyman County was created in 1873 and organized in 1893. Oacoma served as its first county seat in 1891; in 1922 the seat was transferred to Kennebec. Geography Lyman County is bordered on the north and east by the Missouri River, which flows southerly along its edge, and the western portion of its south line is also delineated by the White River, which then continued flowing eastward through the county's eastern area to discharge into the Missouri. Its upper central portion is drained by the Bad Horse Creek, which discharges into the Missouri near the midpoint of the county's north boundary ...
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University Of South Dakota School Of Law
The University of South Dakota School of Law also known as University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law or USD Law in Vermillion, South Dakota, United States, is a professional school of the University of South Dakota and the only law school in the state of South Dakota. Established in 1901, by U.S. Ambassador Bartlett Tripp and U.S. Senator Thomas Sterling. The law school is home to approximately 168 students and has more than 3,000 alumni. With 168 J.D. candidates, it is currently the second-smallest law school and smallest public law school student population among the American Bar Association accredited law schools. The University of South Dakota School of Law has produced 8 Governors of South Dakota including as well as other key figures important to the development of the state, many judges of the South Dakota Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, 13 members of the U.S. Congress, 19 Attorneys General of South Dakota, and 14 U.S. Att ...
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Harlan J
John Marshall Harlan (June 1, 1833 – October 14, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the ''Civil Rights Cases'', ''Plessy v. Ferguson'', and ''Giles v. Harris''. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the 1950s Warren Court and onward. His grandson John Marshall Harlan II was also a Supreme Court justice. Born into a prominent, slavery in the United States, slave-holding family near Danville, Kentucky, Harlan experienced a quick rise to political prominence. When the American Civil War broke out, Harlan strongly supported the Union (American Civil War), Union and recruited the 10th ...
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ...
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Frank Farrar
Frank Leroy Farrar (April 2, 1929 – October 31, 2021) was an American politician who was the 24th governor of South Dakota. A Republican from Britton, he served as the state's attorney general from 1963 to 1969, and as governor from 1969 to 1971. After leaving office, he chaired several holding companies and became the owner of numerous banks. Early life and education Farrar was born in Britton, South Dakota, the son of Venetia Soule (Taylor) and Virgil W. Farrar. He was an Eagle Scout, student body president and graduated from the local high school in Britton in 1947. He earned a B.S. from the University of South Dakota (USD) an LL.B. degree from the USD School of Law. He joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps as a student at USD, and was in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1949 through 1953, and on active duty during the Korean War from 1953 to 1955. He attained the rank of captain by the time he retired from the Army Reserve. He married the former Patricia Henley on June ...
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Donald McMurchie
Donald Clement McMurchie was an American politician who served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota from 1937 to 1941, firstly under Leslie Jensen and secondly under Harlan J. Bushfield, for the Republican Party Republican Party is a name used by many political parties around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican Party. Republican Party may also refer to: Africa *Republican Party (Liberia) * Republican Part .... Biography McMurchie was born on October 2, 1896, in Clay County, South Dakota, to James Duncan McMurchie and Jane Davis. He served as Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota from 1937 to 1941 for the Republican Party. McMurchie died on November 20, 1981, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was buried in Wakonda, South Dakota. References {{DEFAULTSORT:McMurchie, Donald 1896 births 1981 deaths Lieutenant governors of South Dakota ...
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Sioux K
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (; Dakota language, Dakota: Help:IPA, /otʃʰeːtʰi ʃakoːwĩ/) are groups of Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes and First Nations in Canada, First Nations peoples in North America. The modern Sioux consist of two major divisions based on Siouan languages, language divisions: the Dakota people, Dakota and Lakota people, Lakota; collectively they are known as the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ ("Seven Council Fires"). The term "Sioux" is an exonym created from a French language, French transcription of the Ojibwe language, Ojibwe term "Nadouessioux", and can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects. Before the 17th century, the Dakota people, Santee Dakota (; "Knife" also known as the Eastern Dakota) lived around Lake Superior with territories in present-day northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. They gathered wild rice, hunted woodland animals and used canoes to fish. Wars ...
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Parnell J
Parnell may refer to: People Surname *Anna Catherine Parnell (1852–1911), Irish nationalist *Archie Parnell, American political candidate *Arthur Parnell (died 1935), British Anglican priest *Babe Parnell (1901–1982), American football player * Bobby Parnell (born 1984), American baseball pitcher * Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891), Irish politician *Charles Parnell (actor), American actor *Chris Parnell (born 1967), American actor and comedian *Clare Parnell (born 1970), British astrophysicist and applied mathematician *Edward Parnell (politician) (1859–1922), Mayor of Winnipeg, Canada *Edward Parnell (sport shooter) (1875–1941), British Olympic sport shooter * Emory Parnell (1892–1979), American vaudevillian and actor * Fanny Parnell (1848-1882), Irish poet and nationalist *Harvey Parnell (1880–1936), American politician, governor of Arkansas *Henry Parnell (1776–1842), Irish writer and Whig politician *Kenneth Eugene Parnell (1931-2008), American kidnapper and c ...
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1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ...
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