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 |
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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