List of South Dakota Governors
This list includes all governors of the US state of South Dakota and the pre-existing Dakota Territory .
Dakota Territory *
Surname | Term of office | Political party |
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William A. Jayne | 1861-1863 | |
Newton Edmunds | 1863-1866 | |
Andrew Jackson Faulk | 1866-1869 | |
John A. Burbank | 1869-1873 | |
John L. Pennington | 1874-1878 | |
William Alanson Howard | 1878-1880 | |
Nehemiah George Ordway | 1880-1884 | |
Gilbert Ashville Pierce | 1884-1886 | |
Louis Kossuth Church | 1887-1889 | |
Arthur Calvin Mellette | 1889 |
* Divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889
State of South Dakota
Surname | Term of office | annotation |
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Arthur Calvin Mellette | 1889-1893 | republican |
Charles Henry Sheldon | 1893-1897 | republican |
Andrew Ericson Lee | 1897-1901 | Populist party |
Charles Nelson Herreid | 1901-1905 | republican |
Samuel Harrison Elrod | 1905-1907 | republican |
Coe Isaac Crawford | 1907-1909 | republican |
Robert Scadden Vessey | 1909-1913 | republican |
Frank M. Byrne | 1913-1917 | republican |
Peter Norbeck | 1917-1921 | republican |
William Henry McMaster | 1921-1925 | republican |
Carl Gunderson | 1925-1927 | republican |
William John Bulow | 1927-1931 | democrat |
Warren Everett Green | 1931-1933 | republican |
Thomas Matthew Berry | 1933-1937 | democrat |
Leslie Jensen | 1937-1939 | republican |
Harlan John Bushfield | 1939-1943 | republican |
Merrell Quentin Sharpe | 1943-1947 | republican |
George Theodore Mickelson | 1947-1951 | republican |
Sigurd Anderson | 1951-1955 | republican |
Joseph Jacob Foss | 1955-1959 | republican |
Ralph E. Herseth | 1959-1961 | democrat |
Archie M. Gubbrud | 1961-1965 | republican |
Nils Andreas Boe | 1965-1969 | republican |
Frank Leroy Farrar | 1969-1971 | republican |
Richard Francis Kneip | 1971-1978 | democrat |
Harvey L. Wollman | 1978-1979 | democrat |
William John Janklow | 1979-1987 | republican |
George Speaker Mickelson | 1987-1993 | republican |
Walter Dale Miller | 1993-1995 | republican |
William John Janklow | 1995-2003 | republican |
Marion Michael Rounds | 2003-2011 | republican |
Dennis M. Daugaard | 2011-2019 | republican |
Kristi Noem | 2019– | Republican |
See also
- List of United States Senators from South Dakota
- List of members of the US House of Representatives from South Dakota