List of Lieutenant Governors of South Dakota

The office of lieutenant governor has existed in the US state of South Dakota since the state joined the Union in 1889. The lieutenant governor presides over the Senate of South Dakota as president and represents the governor if he is unable to exercise his office or is outside the state is located.

Surname	Term of office	Political party
James H. Fletcher	1889-1891	republican
George Harrison Hoffman	1891-1893	republican
Charles Nelson Herreid	1893-1897	republican
Daniel T. Hindman	1897-1899	republican
John T. Kean	1899-1901	republican
George W. Snow	1901-1905	republican
John E. McDougall	1905-1907	republican
Howard C. Shober	1907-1911	republican
Frank M. Byrne	1911-1913	republican
Edward Lincoln Abel	1913-1915	republican
Peter Norbeck	1915-1917	republican
William Henry McMaster	1917-1921	republican
Carl Gunderson	1921-1925	republican
Alva Clark Forney	1925-1927	republican
Hyatt E. Covey	1927-1929	republican
Clarence E. Coyne	1929	republican
John T. Grigsby	1929-1931	democrat
Odell K. Whitney	1931-1933	republican
Hans Ustrud	1933-1935	democrat
Robert D. Peterson	1935-1937	democrat
Donald McMurchie	1937-1941	republican
AC Miller	1941-1945	republican
Sioux Kingsbury Grigsby	1945-1949	republican
Rex A. Terry	1949-1955	republican
L. Roy Houck	1955-1959	republican
John F. Lindley	1959-1961	democrat
Joseph Henry Bottum	1961–1962	republican
Nils Andreas Boe	1963-1965	republican
Lem Overpeck	1965-1969	republican
E. James Abdnor	1969-1971	republican
William Dougherty	1971-1975	democrat
Harvey Lowell Wollman	1975-1988	democrat
Lowell C. Hansen	1979-1987	republican
Walter Dale Miller	1987-1993	republican
Steve T. Kirby	1993-1995	republican
Carole Hillard	1995-2003	republican
Dennis M. Daugaard	2003-2011	republican
Matt Michels	2011-2019	republican
Larry Rhoden	since 2019	republican

See also

• List of United States Senators from South Dakota
• List of members of the US House of Representatives from South Dakota