Faulkton is a city in and county seat of Faulk County,South Dakota,United States. The population was 826 at the 2020 census. The city's nickname is "The Carousel City".
Alonzo Jay Edgerton was a United States senator from Minnesota and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota.
Granville Gaylord Bennett was an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court for the Dakota Territory and as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
George Arthur Mathews was an American lawyer of Brookings,South Dakota. He was active in the government of the Dakota Territory,and was a territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
Augustus Caesar Dodge was a Democratic delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa Territory,a U.S. minister to Spain,and one of the first set of United States Senators to represent Iowa after it was admitted to the Union as a state. His father,Henry Dodge,served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin;the two were the first and so far the only father-son pair to serve concurrently in the Senate,which they did from 1848 to 1855.
John Blair Smith Todd was a Delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
George Miles Chilcott was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of Colorado,and a United States senator from the State of Colorado.
Coe Isaac Crawford was an American attorney and politician from South Dakota. He served as the sixth Governor and as a U.S. Senator.
John Rankin Gamble was a lawyer and politician from South Dakota. He was born in Alabama,New York in 1848,and was the brother of Robert J. Gamble and uncle of Ralph Abernethy Gamble.
Eben Wever Martin was an American attorney and politician in South Dakota. A Republican,he was most notable for his service as a member of the United States House of Representatives during the early 20th Century.
John Fitch Kinney was a prominent American attorney,judge,and Democratic politician. He served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa,twice as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah and one term as the Territory of Utah's Delegate in the House of Representatives of the 38th Congress.
John Adam Kasson was a nineteenth-century lawyer,politician and diplomat from south-central Iowa. Elected to the U.S. House six times,he repeatedly interrupted his congressional service to serve in the Diplomatic service in many different capacities.
Charles Quincy Tirrell was a lawyer,educator,and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Benton Jay "Ben" Hall was a one-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district in southeastern Iowa.
John Parsons Cook was an American lawyer and politician affiliated with the Whig Party who represented Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855.
Shepherd Leffler was one of the two original U.S. Representatives to represent Iowa when the state was first admitted to the Union. Elected as a Democrat in 1846,Leffler went on to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House for additional terms.
Andrew Jackson Harlan was a U.S. Representative from Indiana and later a member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He was a cousin of Aaron Harlan.
John Edwards was an American Civil War brigadier general in the Union Army,an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. He served in Congress for less than a year before being removed from office following allegations of fraud in his 1870 election.
The Minnesota Territorial Legislature was a bicameral legislative body created by the United States Congress in 1849 as the legislative branch of the government of the Territory of Minnesota. The upper chamber,the Council,and the lower chamber,the House of Representatives,first convened on September 3,1849. The two chambers served as the territory's legislative body until Minnesota was admitted as a state on May 11,1858,when the Territorial Legislature was replaced by the Minnesota Legislature.
The Maj. John A. Pickler Homestead,also known as the Pickler Project,is a historic house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It located on the south edge of the city of Faulkton,South Dakota.
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