Secretary of State of South Dakota

Seal of South Dakota

The Secretary of State of South Dakota is one of the constitutional offices of the State of South Dakota .

The Secretary of State of South Dakota has three divisions:

The Business Services Division registers corporations and other business entities , as well as trademarks , DBAs and rights of retention , which correspond to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).

The Elections Division organizes the elections, is responsible for voter registration and regulates the campaign funding . In this regard, the Secretary of State chairs the South Dakota Board of Elections .

The Administrative Services Division licenses notaries , players' agents and lobbyists , issues apostilles and CCW licenses , authorizes certain types of gambling , serves as a registered point of contact for foreign citizens and corporations for services, and issues the South Dakota Legislative Manual (also known as the Blue Book ).

The Secretary of State also sits on the State Board of Finance and maintains legislative records.

Dakota Territory *

#	Secretary of State	Term of office	Political party
1	John Hutchinson	1861-1865
2	Solomon L. Spink	1865-1869	republican
3	TM Wilkins	1869-1870
4th	GA Batchelder	1870-1872
6th	Edwin Stanton McCook	1872-1873
7th	Oscar Whitney	1873-1874
8th	George H. Hand	1874-1883
9	JM plate	1883-1886	republican
10	Michael L. McCormack	1886-1889	democrat
11	LB Richardson	1889

* Divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889

State of South Dakota

#	Secretary of State	Term of office	Political party
1	Amund O. Ringsrud	1889-1893	republican
2	Thomas Thorson	1893-1897	republican
3	William H. Roddle	1897-1901	republican
4th	OC mountain	1901-1905	republican
5	David D. Wipf	1905-1909	republican
6th	Samuel C. Polley	1909-1913	republican
7th	Frank P. Glasner	1913-1915	republican
8th	Frank M. Rood	1915-1919	republican
9	Charles A. Burkhart	1919-1922	republican
10	Clarence E. Coyne	1922-1927	republican
11	Gladys Pyle	1927-1931	Republican
12	Elizabeth Coyne	1931-1933	Republican
13	Myrtle Morrison	1933-1937	Democrat
14th	Goldie Wells	1937-1939	Democrat
15th	Olive A. Ringsrud	1939-1943	Republican
16	Henrietta Larsen	1943-1947	Republican
17th	Annamae reef	1947-1951	Republican
18th	Geraldine Ostroot	1951-1957	Republican
19th	Clara Halls	1957-1959	Republican
20th	Selma Sandness	1959-1961	Democrat
21st	Essie Wiedenman	1961-1965	Republican
22nd	Alma Larson	1965-1973	Republican
23	Lorna B. Herseth	1973-1979	Democrat
24	Alice Kundert	1979-1987	Republican
25th	Joyce Hazeltine	1987-2003	Republican
26th	Chris Nelson	2003-2011	republican
27	Jason M. Gant	2011-2015	republican
28	Shantel cancer	since 2015	Republican

literature

Chapter 4 - 2007 South Dakota Legislative Manual Executive Branch , p. 92 (PDF document)

Web links

References and comments

↑ Edwin S. McCook was murdered by Peter P. Wintermute in September 1873.

[1] Edwin S. McCook was murdered by Peter P. Wintermute in September 1873.