Huron is a city in and the county seat of Beadle County,South Dakota,United States. The population was 14,263 at the 2020 census,and it is the 8th most populous city in South Dakota.
Gladys Shields Pyle was an American educator,politician and the first woman elected to the United States Senate without having previously been appointed to her position;she was also the first female senator to serve as a Republican and the first female senator from South Dakota. Further,she was the first female senator from outside the south. She was also the first unmarried female senator.
Harlan John Bushfield was an American politician from South Dakota. He served as the 16th governor of South Dakota and as a United States senator.
Sigurd Anderson was the 19th Governor of South Dakota. Anderson,a Republican from Webster,South Dakota,served in that office from 1951 to 1955.
The 1948 United States Senate election in South Dakota took place on November 2,1948. Incumbent Republican Senator Harlan J. Bushfield,suffering from poor health,declined to run for re-election. On September 27,1948,he died in office;his wife,Vera C. Bushfield,was appointed to succeed him. Congressman Karl E. Mundt easily won the Republican primary and advanced to the general election,where he was opposed by Democratic nominee John A. Engel,an attorney. Hundt defeated Engel in a landslide.
The 1894 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1894. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles H. Sheldon ran for re-election to a second term. Despite facing a thread of defeat at the Republican convention,Sheldon was renominated unanimously. In the general election,he faced Populist nominee Isaac Howe,a Spink County Judge;James A. Ward,the former state chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party;and Prohibition nominee M. D. Alexander. The election was largely a replay of the gubernatorial elections of 1890 and 1892,with the Farmers' Alliance candidate placing second and the Democratic nominee placing a distant third. This time,however,Sheldon won an outright majority and the Democratic Party's vote share shrunk to just 11%,its worst performance in state history.
The 1892 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1892. Incumbent Republican Governor Arthur C. Mellette declined to seek re-election to a third term. Former territorial legislator Charles H. Sheldon was nominated by the Republican Party as Mellette's replacement,and he faced former legislator Abraham Lincoln Van Osdel,a leader in the South Dakota Farmers' Alliance and the nominee of the Independent Party,along with Democratic nominee Peter Couchman,in the general election. The result was largely a replay of the 1890 election,with Sheldon winning by a large margin,but only a plurality,and Van Osdel taking second place over Couchman.
The 1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1896. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles H. Sheldon declined to run for re-election to a third term. Former Secretary of State Amund O. Ringsrud was nominated as Sheldon's replacement at the Republican convention. Ringrud's main opponent was businessman Andrew E. Lee,who was nominated by a makeshift coalition of Populists,Free Silver Republicans,and Democrats. In the general election,Lee narrowly defeated Ringsrud,the first defeat for the Republican Party in a gubernatorial election since statehood.
The 1906 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1906. Incumbent Republican Governor Samuel H. Elrod ran for re-election,but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by former Attorney General Coe I. Crawford. In the general election,Crawford was opposed by the Democratic nominee,former State Representative John A. Stransky of Brule County. Crawford had little difficulty defeating Stransky in a landslide,largely matching Elrod's margin of victory from two years earlier.
The 1962 United States Senate election in South Dakota took place on November 6,1962. Incumbent Republican Senator Francis H. Case ran for re-election to a third term. He won the Republican primary against Attorney General A. C. Miller,but shortly after the primary,died. The Republican State Central Committee named Lieutenant Governor Joseph H. Bottum as Case's replacement on the ballot,and Governor Archie Gubbrud appointed Bottum to fill the vacancy caused by Case's death. In the general election,Bottum was opposed by Democratic nominee George McGovern,the Director of Food for Peace and the former U.S. Congressman from South Dakota's 1st congressional district. The contest between Bottum and McGovern was quite close,with McGovern narrowly defeating him for election by just 597 votes,making him the first Democrat to win a Senate election in South Dakota since William J. Bulow's win in 1936.
Clarence C. Caldwell was an American attorney and the 9th Attorney General of South Dakota.
Mary "Mamie" Shields Pyle was a women's suffrage leader in the U.S. state of South Dakota. She was instrumental in the state's enactment of women's suffrage in 1918.
Adolphus W. Burtt was an American attorney and politician. He is most notable for his service in the South Dakota Senate in the early 1890s and as Attorney General of South Dakota in the early 1900s.
Melvin Grigsby was an American attorney,politician,and military leader from South Dakota. A Union Army veteran of the American Civil War,Grigsby was most notable for his service as South Dakota Attorney General and an organizer and commander of the 3rd United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish–American War.
Byron S. Payne was an American attorney and politician from South Dakota. A Republican,he was best known for his service as the state's attorney general from 1919 to 1923.
The 1938 United States Senate elections in South Dakota took place on November 8,1938. Incumbent Republican Senator Peter Norbeck died in office on December 20,1936. Herbert E. Hitchcock was appointed by Governor Tom Berry as Norbeck's replacement. Two elections for the same Senate seat were held on the same day;one as a special election to fill the remainder of Norbeck's six-year term,and another to select a Senator to serve the next six-year term.
The 1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 2,1926. Incumbent Republican Governor Carl Gunderson ran for re-election to a second term. The election was largely a rematch of the 1924 election,with Gunderson's chief opponent from two years prior,Democrat William J. Bulow,challenging him once again. Two other candidates—Farmer–Labor nominee Tom Ayres and Pierre Mayor John E. Hipple,an independent—also ran. Though the left-leaning vote was split,Bulow was still able to win a decisive victory over Gunderson,whose support from two years earlier had completely collapsed.
The 1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1928. Incumbent Democratic Governor William J. Bulow ran for re-election to a second term. In the general election,he faced Attorney General Buell F. Jones,the Republican nominee. Despite Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover overwhelmingly defeating Democratic nominee Al Smith overwhelmingly in South Dakota,Bulow defeated Jones by a decisive margin to retain the governorship. In so doing,he became the first Democratic candidate for Governor to receive a majority of the vote in the state's history.
The 1930 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 4,1930. Incumbent Democratic Governor William J. Bulow declined to run for re-election to a third term,instead opting to successfully run for the U.S. Senate. The Republican nomination was hard-fought and the primary was crowded;because no candidate received 35% of the vote,state law required that the nomination be decided at a state party convention. There,former State Senator Warren Green,the last-place finisher in the primary,defeated Secretary of State Gladys Pyle,the plurality winner. In the general election,Green faced D. A. McCullough,the state's Rural Credits Commissioner and the Democratic nominee. Despite Bulow's success in the preceding two elections,Green defeated McCullough by a decisive margin—even as Bulow himself was elected to the U.S. Senate.
The 1940 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 5,1940. Incumbent Republican Governor Harlan J. Bushfield sought re-election to a second term. After winning the Republican primary by a large margin,he faced Democrat Lewis W. Bicknell,former Day County State's Attorney,in the general election. Though Bushfield underperformed Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie,who won the state in a landslide,he nonetheless defeated Bicknell by a wide margin to easily win re-election.
