South Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction

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The South Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction was part of the constitutional offices of the state of South Dakota . The electoral office existed there from 1889 until its abolition in 1975. The first election to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of South Dakota took place in October 1889.

The duties of the South Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction were transferred to the South Dakota Commissioner of School and Public Lands in 1975 .

Dakota Territory *

Superintendent of Public Instruction Term of office
James S. Foster 1864-1868
T. McKendrick Stuart 1869
James S. Foster 1869-1870
JW Turner 1870-1871
EW Miller 1872-1874
JJ McIntyre 1875-1876
WE Caton 1877-1878
WHH Beadle 1879-1885
A. Sheridan Jones 1885-1887
Eugene A. Dye 1887-1889
Leonard A. Rose 1889

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

State of South Dakota

Superintendent of Public Instruction Term of office Party affiliation
Gilbert L. Pinkham 1889-1891 republican
Cortez Salmon 1891-1895 republican
Franke Crane 1895-1899 republican
Edward Elliot Collins 1899-1903
George W. Nash 1903-1906
MM Ramer 1906-1907
Hans Ustrud 1907-1911 democrat
CG Lawrence 1911-1915
Charles H. Lugg 1915-1918
Fred L. Shaw 1918-1925 republican
Charles G. St. John 1925-1929
Ernest C. Giffen 1929-1933
Ila Delbert Weeks 1933-1935
John F. Hines 1935-1949
Harold S. Freeman 1949-1957
Merrill Franklin Coddington 1957-1967
Fern Raymond Wanek 1967
Gordon Albert Diedtrich 1967-1971
Don Barnhart 1971-1975
Fern Raymond Wanek 1975

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gov. Daugaard orders State Capitol flags at half-staff for former state superintendent , ksfy.com, August 22, 2017
  2. ^ Garry, Patrick M .: The South Dakota State Constitution , Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-199-92667-1 , p. 282
  3. ↑ Directory of South Dakota Government , 2011, p. 146 (PDF document)

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