List of members of the South Dakota Senate

These tables are historical listings of state senators who served in the South Dakota Senate from statehood in 1889 until the present.

Key to party colors for the South Dakota Senate

Democratic

Fusion

Independent

Non-Partisan

Populist

Republican

Members of the South Dakota State Senate (1889–1939)

45 senators elected from 41 districts. Senators were elected from single-member districts, with five counties each electing two at-large senators. The number of senators was reduced to 43 senators from 1893 to 1899. A 42nd District was added in 1909.

Multi-member at-large districts

District	Seats	Years	County
9th	2	1889–1909	Minnehaha
10th	2	1909–1939
30th	2	1889–1893	Spink
32nd	2	1899–1909	Day
33rd	2	1909–1939	Brown
35th	2	1909–1939
38th	2	1889–1893; 1899–1909	Lawrence
39th	2	1909–1939

Senate Session	District																																																		Senate Session
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th		10th		11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th	28th	29th	30th		31st	32nd		33rd		34th	35th		36th	37th	38th		39th		40th	41st	42nd
1st 1889–1890	Edward Charles Ericson	John Lawlor Jolley	Levi B. French	George W. Snow	H. J. Frank	Vale P. Thielmanm	Casper B. M. Fergen	Frank E. Tomlinson	Alfred Beard Kittredge	J. A. Cooley	J. H. Brown		Martin E. Conlan	George A. Johnston	W. M. Smith	Joseph M. Greene	Lauritz Hasvold	H. P. Smith	Stiles H. Bronson (Populist)	H. C. Warner	S. F. Huntley	Granville J. Coller	Irving R. Spooner	John Cain	George R. Mason	Coe Isaac Crawford	L. C. Leppelman	C. R. Wescott	Ole H. Ford	William R. Thomas	Carl G. Sherwood	Thomas Sterling	Harry F. Hunter	John S. Proctor	John Norton		Leander C. Dennis	George W. Miller	Richard Williams	Frank M. Byrne		Frank M. Hopkins	George Harrison Hoffman	Charles S. Parsons	Frank J. Washabaugh	Alfred Walstein Bangs		Edward S. Galvin	Alexander S. Stewart		1st 1889–1890
2nd 1891	Truman M. Stewart			Peter Byrne	W. F. Dunham	Albert L. Peterman	Jacob Schnaidt, Sr.	John Stewart Bean		Lasse Bothun	Mathew White		P. F. Wickhem	Harrison C. Preston	John L. Heintz	Lawrence H. Willrodt	Daniel K. Mathews (Populist)	Robert C. Zimmermann	I. L. Burch		J. N. Smith	Henry Ingram Stearns	J.C. Crawford	Americus B. Melville	William S. Major (Populist)	Frank Drew	William Austin	David S. Greene	Robert Dixon (Populist)	Mark Wentworth Sheafe, Sr.	J. I. Carrier	William Bird	Frank J. Cory	Z. D. Scott	Duncan McFarlane		James Henderson Kyle	Burroughs Abbott	Daniel T. Hindman	R. W. Maxwell		Edward G. Kennedy	Joseph H. Horton	William S. O'Brien		David H. Clark [1]		John T. Potter	Isaacher Scholfield		2nd 1891
3rd 1893	Louis Napoleon Crill	Carl Gunderson	Walter Atwood Burleigh	Robert Dollard	Edgar Dean	Isom H. Newby	John Schamber	Benjamin Franklin Fulwider	Charles L. Brockway	James Hart	Charles E. Johnson		Martin E. Conlan	Charles F. Raymond	A. M. Andrews	Lewis A. Foote	Thomas Fountain	John J. Fitzgerald	John P. Ryan	James Platt Willis	James R. Milliken	John C. Allison		Albert W. Burtt		Henry R. Horner	John E. Lawrence	Joseph Hebal	Knudt G. Springen	Joseph C. Miller	David Olney Bennett	William Bird		Nicholas I. Lowthian	A. C. Roberts		Francis D. Adams	Samuel A. Kennedy	Peter Berkman	Wesley F. Cattron		William Edwards	Ellery Channing Chilcott	Sol Star		Dwight B. Ingram		James E. Newland	William J. Thornby		3rd 1893
4th 1895	John E. Sinclair	Ole Oleson, Jr. (Populist)	George Washington Kingsbury	James H. Stephens	Bernard C. Jacobs	Thomas C. Elce		Edwin S. Johnson	Frank L. Boyce [2]	Edley J. Elliott			Andrew H. Betts	George A. Schlund (Fusion)	Ole Halverson Storla		Charles A. Chamberlin	John A. Johnson	L. W. Aldrich	A. P. Doran (Populist)	C. C. Wright (Populist)			Edward H. Aplin	John W. Schult	Cassius C. Bennett				Edwin D. Wheelock		William D. Craig			John F. Kelley		Frank G. Brooberg	Charles Allen Howard	Henry Roberts Pease	Darius S. Smith		James R. Howell	Edward G. Kennedy	William G. Rice		Levi McGee		James Monroe Priest	Stephen Eugene Wilson		4th 1895
5th 1897	Louis Napoleon Crill	Carl Gunderson	Frank D. Wyman		Walter H. Wilkinson	A. A. Powers	E. T. Sweet	Willis A. Prather	Cornelius S. Palmer (Fusion)	Lasse Bothun	David C. Morgan (Fusion)		Elsworth E. King (Fusion)		Volkit S. Cook (Fusion)	John S. Stewart (Populist)	Rufus Whealy (Populist)	Michael E. Hart (Fusion)	D. W. Jackson	Seth T. Winslow	Jefferson Sickler (Fusion)	Dudley David	Irwin A. Keith (Fusion)	Henry C. Hinckley (Fusion)	William S. Major (Populist)	Henry R. Horner	Denton B. Thayer	Millard F. Greeley	Lyman Rufus Burlingame	George W. Case	James A. Grant (Fusion)			Thomas L. Bouck (Fusion)	Joseph T. Goodwin (Populist)		Frank W. Webb (Populist)	John C. Kindschy (Populist)	James Ross	John F. Whitlock		Edward James McGlenn (Fusion)	Ira A. Hatch	John B. Fairbank (Fusion)		Joseph Peter Buck (Fusion)		William Bradley	Andrew Jackson Kellar (Fusion)		5th 1897
6th 1899	William John Bulow		Edward G. Edgerton	George W. Snow	Peder Anthon Overseth	Lawton Willard Cooke	Julius William Ulmer	James Gurnal Jones (Populist)	Albert Harvey Stites	Levi Stone Tyler (Fusion)	William Hoese, Jr.		Victor K. Stillwell	George A. Johnston	Solomon W. Pease (Fusion)	Jesse Hiatt (Fusion)	Edward Jordan (Populist)	John J. Fitzgerald		Ellis M. Smith	Louis N. Loomis	Charles L. Wohlheter (Fusion)	Thomas Reed	Edwin H. Vance	John M. King (Populist)	Robert W. Stewart	James "Scotty" Philip	William Rohweder	Alef O. Arneson (Populist)	John Baptist Hanten		Cornelius Wallis Gregory			Edward C. Toy (Populist)	Richard Williams	E. P. Ashford	James Marshall Lawson	Theodore A. Gunnarson	Joseph H. Bottum		H. G. Boyland	Fred W. Schamber	William S. O'Brien	Henry T. Cooper	Edmund Smith		Samuel S. Littlefield	Willis E. Benedict		6th 1899
7th 1901	Frank M. Gilmore			Joseph Leach		William H. Stoddard	E. T. Sweet	Homer W. Johnson (Fusion)		Carl John Johnson	Henry Van Woert				Joseph H. Close	John Wilkes (Fusion)	George H. Few	John H. Williamson	L. J. Martin (Populist)	Alfred B. Rowley		Philo Hall	Henry Mauch		Winfield Scott Bell		Fred S. Rowe	John T. Newby	Andrew Nels Johnson	Charles H. Englesby	Orator Henry LaCraft			Pierce Cahill	Ross E. Parks		James Marshall Lawson	Frank E. Campbell	John H. Lewis	John F. Whitlock		A. F. LeClaire	Wilbur F. Varnum	Llewellyn P. Jenkins	Henry T. Cooper	George P. Bennett		Peter Edwards	John L. Burke		7th 1901
8th 1903	August Frieberg	Jason Elihu Payne	Charles Hall Dillon	James P. Cooley	Martin E. Rudolph [3]		Julius William Ulmer		Edgar Burr Northrup	Henry Robertons	Edward Lincoln Abel		Henry J. Boehmer	O. L. Branson		W. L. Montgomery			J. W. Seney		Thomas W. Lane	Martin N. Trygstad	Adam Royhl	Fred M. Wilcox	Frank E. Saltmarsh	Cassius C. Bennett	Douglas F. Carlin			C. A. Neill		R. H. McCaughey [4]			Edwin R. Thompson	John Edmund McDougall		William Koepsel	Clement F. Porter	Joseph H. Bottum		H. G. Boyland	John Stoller		James C. Moody	John F. Schrader		Henry E. Perkins			8th 1903
9th 1905				James H. Stephens	Charles H. Cassill		John Doering	Edwin Morgan					Edward E. Wagner		Willis C. Cook	Oliver P. Cordill (Populist)	George Rice	John Larkins	L. E. McQuillan	George H. Bonney	Robert S. Vessey	C. T. Doughty		George Smith Hutchinson		Howard C. Shober	Warren Young	Andrew B. Anderson (Populist)			Clarence E. Hayward			C. S. Amsden	Edward C. Toy (Populist)	Richard Williams			Lewis S. Hougen	John F. Whitlock		Mahlon T. Lightner	Charles D. Blanchard	Ernest May	Henry T. Cooper	Myron Willsie		Samuel G. Mortimer	William F. Hanley		9th 1905
10th 1907	James T. Scroggs	Orville W. Thompson		James P. Cooley	John G. Laxson	James S. Thomson		Irving T. Lothrop	John A. Egge	John Henry Mundt	James Smith		Jacob Schiltz	J. M. Erion		John Smith	James F. Goodsell	E. F. Krueger	H. H. Welch	Robert E. Dowdell		John C. Jenkins (Populist)	Jacob Johnson	Michael L. Tobin	J. T. McCullen	Ivan Wilbur Goodner	William E. Sweeney	F. H. Greene	Warren Green	Charles H. Englesby	Wallace M. Danforth	David Robertson		George W. Merry	Samuel A. Bell	William Carpenter	Isaac Lincoln	John R. Weaver		Frank M. Byrne		Eugene Overholser	Fred Hepperle					Henry E. Perkins	William B. Dudley		10th 1907
11th 1909		E. D. Hawkins		John E. Holleman		Charles H. Andrews	William H. Shaw	Frank S. Strohbehn	Alvin M. Shaw		Charles P. Bates	Gilbert Thoreson [5]	William Hoese	Charles A. Laurson	Herbert Emery Hitchcock	Oliver D. Anderson	A. Williamson	C. H. Jordan	Adrian Nyquist	James F. Goodsell	John A. Johnson	R. H. Williams				Adolph W. Ewert	Adolph W. Ewert	Andrew J. Lockhart	Alef O. Arneson (Populist)	Charles X. Seward		Peter Norbeck		C. S. Amsden	Earl V. Bobb		Samuel A. Bell		Silas S. Yeager	John R. Weaver	Ira O. Curtiss	Frank M. Byrne	B. F. Puckett	Theo Wosnuk		Donald A. McPherson	Ernest May	Joseph Hare	Oliver O. Stokes	L. E. Highley	11th 1909
12th 1911	John Morrissey	Andrew S. Anderson	Alfred Lee Wyman	James P. Cooley	W. C. Gemmill	Lewis L. Fleeger	John H. Mettler	B. F. Morgan	Bayard T. Boylan		John E. Pearson	James W. Cone [6]		Wellington J. Maytum			George Duncan	Harry S. Hedrick		George Amasa Perley|		E. C. Miller|	William F. Brennan	George W. Wright	C. M. Carroll	John J. Dalton	John G. Bartine			Henry Wiersbeck	James D. McKenney				Anton H. Dahl		John H. Brooks		Ross E. Parks			I. W. A. Collins	George W. Ryan	Andrew Williams				Harry Gandy	Henry E. Perkins	Dennis Henault	12th 1911
13th 1913			William H. McMaster		Jesse David Hicks	Eric H. Odland	Andreas A. Wipf		Frank J. Fenzl		Henry Howe			Ellis M. Smith	Gustav H. Helgerson	Ray J. Murphy	John G. Bartine	Thomas L. White	Ernest O. Patterson	Robert E. Dailey	Basil B. Bowell		David Paterson				E. A. Morrison	J. L. Brown	Thomas James Law	Hans Martin Finnerud	Thomas H. Bickel				Andrew Marvick				Donald C. McLean	C. A. Russell	Edwin Jones Mather	John F. Whitlock	John W. Harris	J. H. Fischer		Alex Arthur Moodie		Moritz Adelbert Lange	John D. Hale	John F. Parks	13th 1913
14th 1915	E. W. Ericson			Theodore Berndt	Albert Joseph Kuhns		John Wallace Peckham	Weldon F. Brooks	John E. Morris		John E. Pearson	Thomas McKinnon	Walter E. Van Demark [7]	Charles A. Laurson	Clyde S. Bobb	John C. Stoner	Alfred Zoske	Jacob E. Ziebach	O. J. Lundly		Hans Urdahl			O. S. Hagen	Glen M. Waters	Louis L. Stephens	William H. Frost	William H. McClintock	Winfred E. Whittemore	Mark Wentworth Sheafe, Jr.		Charles Edward Stutenroth					David L. Printup			Isaac Lincoln	John L. Browne		M. Plin Beebe	George Brooke Howell		Robert C. Hayes		Frederick Bailey Stiles		Frederick E. Walker	14th 1915
15th 1917		Carl Gunderson	Thomas J. Frick	James H. Stephens					Edwin Peck Wanzer		Andrew L. Berg	John E. Pearson	Frank D. Peckham	Robert E. Dowdell	Charles Boreson	Gideon G. Glendinning	John M. Johnson	Henry P. Will	Sigel D. Sharp			Martin G. Carlisle	Charles A. Alseth	William Washington Howes		Grailey H. Jaynes				John Carlyle Southwick	George Lindland	R. W. Labrie					Carl J. Mohn				Jay Edward Reeves	A. M. Moore	F. J. Milliman	John Rossow		Theorus R. Stoner	David R. Evans	W. F. Haafke		David Anderson	15th 1917
16th 1919		William Oscar Knight	Carl G. Kjeldseth		Robert Otto Schaber		P. P. Kleinsasser		John B. Tripp		George Jonathan Danforth		B. F. Myers	M. D. Eide		Frank A. Finch	Henry P. Will	Harold Gunvordahl	Allen L. Horsfall	Hans Urdahl	Martin G. Carlisle	Charles A. Alseth	Edgar James Miller	Charles W. Gardner	Grailey H. Jaynes	Edgar Watwood	John M. Johnson	Hyatt E. Covey	Arthur W. Bartels		James Montgomery Johnston				Ole Peter John Engstrom				William Garner Waddel		William M. Scott		John F. Comstock	John Joseph Hepperle			J. C. Milne	George P. Bennett	Charles Ham	Percy H. Helm	16th 1919
17th 1921				James A. Wagner		Joseph Swenson		Jacob W. Eggers	F. E. Van Zee			Andrew L. Berg				George O. Sletten				F. W. Schultz	John A. Lunden		Irving R. Crawford		Harry Thomas Kenney	J. D. Morrison	Arthur L. Freelove			Arthur L. Sherin		A. Loomis					George F. Anderson					John J Mertens	John A. Koch	F. W. Schirber			Frank R. Cock		Carroll D. Erskine	William A. Guilfoyle	17th 1921
18th 1923	John B. Johnson	John Frieberg	Charles B. Freney		Carl F. Tank	Alan Bogue, Jr.	William Bartling		Lewis John Larson [8]		Harry Franklin Brownell	Eric J. Ellefson	Wellington J. Maytum	Frank Hoy	Lauritz Miller		Ellsworth E. Dye	Edward Henry Everson	Lewis Benson	L. G. Atherton				Frank R. Fisher	Glenn W. Martens	Charles W. Robertson	Edgar C. Hall		Warren Green	Henry Adam Wagner	Elmer William Anderson				Stephen Henderson		Otto L. Kaas		Jacob O. Wickre	George Brooke Howell	Dwight Campbell			W. K. Bishop		Alex Arthur Moodie				William Robert Woods	18th 1923
19th 1925		Charles J. Gunderson		John R. Kirk	Verne C. Kennedy		Warren Dimock	Frank Joseph Rubertus			Theodore Mead Bailey	Jacob B. Severson	Fred Litz	Robert E. Dowdell		Daniel Reese Perkins	John Quinn Anderson					Peter H. Schultz	Dick Haney	David A. Erwin	Clinton J. Crandall, Jr.	Odell K. Whitney	Chauncey T. Bates					William F. Bruell					F. Emmett Sayer		A. T. H. Bosland		Hugh Agor	Frank Cundill	S. J. Hagg	Edward C. Slocum			Leonard M. Simons	Isaac H. Chase		Leonard W. March	19th 1925
20th 1927	Ole Lawrence	Andrew B. Gunderson		Henry Brown	Jesse David Hicks	Robert "Verne" Rayburn					Charles S. McDonald	A. N. Brudvig	Wellington J. Maytum		Herbert S. Barnard		Joe Atkins	Edward Prchal	Gregory F. Meyers	Ira F. Blewitt	Carl O. Trygstad	Emil Loriks	James McNamara				Jorgen J. Boe	Frank T. Fetzner	Peter Sorenson	George H. Taecker	George C. Berry	Fred A. Reinecke			O. K. Sather						William L. Buttz			Theodore J. P. Giedt				Joseph L. Robbins		Stephen E. Ainslie	20th 1927
21st 1929				C. N. McCollum		Andrew Stenson Bogue	John Chris Graber	Francis W. Jones			Ralph Winfield Parliman, Sr.	William Cornwall Nisbet	William Wallace Moyes [9]	W. A. Anderson	Henry Emery Hitchcock	George O. Sletten		William Sinkular	Hugh H. Stokes	W. H. Farmer		J. L. Barber	S. D. Disrud	William C. Hermann	Charles Lee Hyde							Carl Otto Johnson		Robert Hunter			Harold W. King		Mancel W. Peterson			I. J. McGinity	A. F. Miles	Martin Ingval Larsen [10]				John A. Boland	George McFarland	L. E. Highley	21st 1929
22nd 1931	James Fedderson	Wilfred L. Chaussee	Henry K. Warren	James Kirk, Jr.	Charles Herbert Fitch		John J. Wipf	Walter H. Frei			Richard A. Bielski	Claus F. Eggers	Lawrence G. France	Robert E. Dowdell	J. S. Harkness	William R. Gardner					Herman C. Halvorson	Carl Emil Loriks	Earl P. Flowers [11]			E. G. Wilkinson	J. B. Hartz		Benjamin U. Hestad	Warren Welch	L. J. Odland									Maurice Carpenter	George C. Ernst	J. P. Shirk		Theodore J. P. Giedt							22nd 1931
23rd 1933			Samuel G. Gilliland		Albert O. Helvig	Roy B. Nelson	Franklin Issenhuth	Gus F. Buche			Amund P. Amundson	Roy D. Burns	Louverne Joseph Ballou	Earl Milham Mumford	James Edwin Williams [12]		Earl R. Slifer		Herman D. Eilers	Hans Urdahl				James M. Magness	Edwin DeLos Sutton	Ralph V. Milstead	Erwin Blum	C. M. Barton			Edward H. Baldwin	F. G. Haven		Christ Christian	Fred Evander		Otto L. Kaas						Nathaniel Nickisch	Edward C. Slocum		John A. Bertolero			Cabell Hale	William A. Nevin	23rd 1933
24th 1935			Edward Schneider (politician)	Joseph G. Vaith			William F. D. Ackerman		Frank R. Schroder			Hans Hanson			John H. Hammer		George Abild			E. W. Goldman	Carl O. Trygstad	L. A. Johnson	Carl H. Weir	Elmer A. Beck		Mike Feeney [13]			Ole T. Olson						Stephen Henderson		W. E. Bush					Charles A. McMurray				Dwight Casner					24th 1935
25th 1937		Frank M. Olds			Clarence H. Johnson	M. V. Olsen	David J. Tiede	Ralph N. James	John S. Conover		Albert R. Risty	Blaine Simons	Archie Willis Odell	Fred L. Ferguson		Marion Barrett	Jacob E. Ziebach	George M. Bradshaw	O. H. Hove	Carl A. Stensland					John Thomas Holst		C. J. Wilson	James B. Painter			Alfred Olson			Henry W. Seide						August Dahme	Frank J. McHugh	K. J. Morgan		Paul O. Kretschmar		Kenneth C. Kellar		Jessie E. Sanders [14]	Harry Blair	R. A. Hummel	25th 1937
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	District

Members of the South Dakota State Senate (1939–1967)

35 senators elected from 33 districts. Three counties each elected two at-large senators.

Multi-member at-large districts

District	Seats	Years	County
7th	2	1939–1967	Minnehaha
22nd	2	1939–1961	Brown
28th	2	1963–1967	Pennington

Senate Session	District																																				Senate Session
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th		8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd		23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th	28th		29th	30th	31st	32nd	33rd
26th 1939	Frank M. Olds	M. P. Ohlman	Frank Nash	David J. Tiede	John J. Gering	Clarence H. Johnson	Albert R. Risty	Sioux K. Grigsby	Archie Willis Odell	Andrew Ellwein	Leo D. Heck	Fred L. Ferguson	Carl A. Stensland	Arthur S. Mitchell	L. A. Johnson [15]	Carl H. Weir	Elmer A. Beck	Elmer C. Graves	Ed T. Elkins	Henry W. Seide	E. L. Stavig	M. H. Monson	Frank J. McHugh	August Dahme	Chester E. Solomonson	K. J. Morgan	George M. Bradshaw	E. E. Morford	John E. Mueller, Jr.	Charles S. Reed [16]		C. J. Wilson	Ellis Yarnal Berry	Leonard M. Simons	Marion Barrett	Kenneth C. Kellar	26th 1939
27th 1941	Irwin R. Erickson				Martin V. Olsen	Adolph Nelson			John Buehler	Henry J. Oster		Arthur N. Hanson	O. J. Tommeraason		Harold Orrin Lovre					Elmer G. Knight		Oral Burwain Light	George C. Ernst		Paul O. Kretschmar	William J. Jacobs	R. D. Albaugh		William A. Nevin			Rex Terry		W. F. Thomas		Alfred D. Roesler	27th 1941
28th 1943	Donald W. Beaty		Merton E. Neubauer [17]									Peter Gudahl		Frank L. Messner								Harry W. Nelson			Emil Sonnenfeld			Chris Dam					Matt Stephenson		V. D. Tidball [18]		28th 1943
29th 1945						Robert Otto Schaber		W.T. Knudtson	Rexord M. Sheild	M. E. Helgerson	Ernest H. Wood		Jerry Henry Lammers		Harold Golseth	John Longstaff [19]	Otto B. Linstad	Arthur L. Coleman		Bernard E. Berg			Melvin A. Nelson	Elmer R. Judy	Chester E. Solomonson	Ernest H. Noteboom			George W. Tubbs								29th 1945
30th 1947		W. H. Baggs	William A. Poelstra	William Schenk		Lafe A. Lunder		Art B. Anderson		L. C. Helgerson	Charles R. Hatch	D.H. Brewster		Irwin J. Bibby		H. R. Costain						Oral Burwain Light	J. G. Barger		O. B. Just		Julius Thoene	C. F. Manson [20]					O. J. Fett		L. M. Larson		30th 1947
31st 1949	C. O. Peterson		Joe E. Lehmann		Joseph Conrad Jensen			Arthur feeney	Charles Bruett	Henry J. Oster	Donald J. Stransky				Edwin Severine Johnson	Harold C. Ristow	Fred R. Winans			Elmer G. Knight	Peter J. Weckman		George C. Ernst	Abraham Pred	Raymond Hieb	L. R. "Roy" Houck	Thomas A. Laprath	Alex Olson	Francis E. Manning	Boyd Stewart Leedom		Edwin G. Roller	Emory A. Booth				31st 1949
32nd 1951								Art B. Anderson				Frank A. Ferguson		Ray E. Barnett		Richard M. Pease					Jewett J. Johnson	Arthur W. Jones	Ralph Herseth		Chester E. Solomonson [21]		L.E. Goodwin			John T. Vucurevich		Carman H. Sutley	Scott C. Hatch		Earl V. Morrill		32nd 1951
33rd 1953		Chester W. Stewart	David L. Wickens						Rexford M. Sheild	Damon Clark	L. W. Barns		LeRoy F. Ericsson		Harold Golseth		Lee Warne			Bernard E. Berg		Oral Burwain Light	Archie A. Bolduan	Carl Wolter	Foster C. Shankland				John E. Mueller, Jr.								33rd 1953
34th 1955			Joe E. Lehmann [22]	Marvin T. Gilbertson		Hilbert David Bogue				Henry J. Oster	Donald J. Stransky [23]					Millard G. Scott		Roy O. Hurlbert	Vince E. Halverson		Henry I. Knudsen	Arthur W. Jones		Ralph Herseth	Raymond Hieb	L. A. Melby	Louell Louis Lillibridge	James Ramey					Fred J. Hunter	L. A. Johnson	L. M. Larson		34th 1955
35th 1957				Robert William Hirsch	C. T. 'Corney' DeNeui		Hugh M. Robinson		A.G. Sievers			Hagen Kelsey [24]	O.J. Tommeraason	C. E. Anderson	Walter K. Johnson	Carroll Fullerton [25]	Herbert A. Heidepriem	Lloyd M. Riddle	C. L. Chase	Harry Christians			Robert A. Johnson	Edward H. Downs	John Riedlinger, Jr.	Fred E. Bartels	Thomas A. Laprath		Francis E. Manning	E. C. "Ping" Murray		James Abdnor		F.B. "Bob" Roberts [26]	J. F. "Fritz" Kammerer		35th 1957
36th 1959	Herman Jacobs	James M. Lloyd			Lloyd Schrag		Walter Vincent Nordstrom						Ernie M. Fredrickson	Burdette Shelden				Morgan Tollefson															Archie R. Moore		Olin Marion Matkins		36th 1959
37th 1961			Wilbur Foss [27]						Charles Bruett		Lars Gjesdal [28]		William R. Arneson	Ray E. Barnett	Fred H. Haufschild	Frank L. Hafner [29]	Louis A. Pottratz	Lawrence E. Kayl		Arthur E. Engelbrecht					Andrew Stoebner		Lloyd E. Blomstrom		John E. Mueller, Jr.						George B. McFarland		37th 1961
38th-39th 1963–64	John T. Sanger		Rayburn R. Rueb [30]			Neal A. Strand					Ed C. Sorensen	Herbert A. Willoughby [31]		Gordon Mydland		George Blue			Joel "Joe" Leathers				Edward H. Downs			Herbert A. Heidepriem				Hoadley Dean	E. C. "Ping" Murray		Clarence E. "Swede" Boehrs	Lem Overpeck	Dale A. Davis		38th-39th 1963–64
40th-41st 1965–66	John F. Murphy	Dan Stuelpnagel	Frank Novotny						Richard F. Kneip	Ed Herbst		Merwyn H. Walter	Robert Dailey, Jr.		Oscar L. Anderson		Fawn Pashby	Wilmont M. "Bill" Uecker	G. Robert Bartron	Louis L. "Roy" Johnson			Allen R. Sperry		Ervin E. Dupper		H. Ivan Nelson	Richard W. Hodson	Carl E. Boe	Frank E. Henderson	Harold D. Buckingham			Alfred J. Burke	N. F. "Red Lyon"		40th-41st 1965–66
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Members of the South Dakota State Senate (1967-Present)

35 senators elected from 35 single-member districts. From 1967 to 1973, there were only 29 districts, with three counties each electing more than one at-large member. District 29 was eliminated from 1973 to 1985, when it became District 11's fifth at-large seat. In 1985, all remaining multi-member districts were eliminated, establishing the current 35 single-member districts.

Multi-member at-large districts

District	Seats	Years	County
2nd	2	1967–1985	Brown
11th	4	1967–1973	Minnehaha
	5	1973–1985
28th	3	1967–1973	Pennington
27th	3	1973–1985

Senate Session	District																																												Senate Session
	1st	2nd		3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th					12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th			28th			29th	30th	31st	32nd	33rd	34th	35th
42nd-43rd 1967–68	Arthur W. Jones	E. C. Pieplow	Harland C. Clark	Louis L. "Roy" Johnson	G. Robert Bartron	John B. Foster	Gordon J. Mydland	Henry A. Poppen	Leland L. Steele	Richard Francis Kneip	Norval Gullickson	Art B. Anderson	Walter Vincent Nordstrom [32]	Frank Gibbs	Holger Anderson		Neal A Strand	Lloyd Schrag	Robert William Hirsch [33]	Alvin J. "Hap" Rhian	Frank Novotny	F. Wayne Unzicker	Harold B. Willrodt	Herbert A. Heidepriem	George W. Fillbach	Ervin E. Dupper	William Lane Grams	Carl Theodore Fischer	James Abdnor	R. C. "Randy" Stenson	Clell D. Elwood [34]	Alfred D. Roesler			Carl T. Burgess	Arthur L. Jones	Bill Hustead	Alfred J. Burke	Districts 30-35 re-established in 1985						42nd-43rd 1967–68
44th-45th 1969–70			Allen Sperry			Wilmont M. "Bill" Uecker	Paul E. Brown						Henry T. Quinn [35]				Wendell Eugene Leafstedt		William R. Ripp [36]			A. A. "Joe" Quintal		Harvey L. Wollman		A. W. Spiry			Robert H. Burns		Kenneth A. Trask [37]	Joe R. Dunmire			Frank E. Henderson		Kenneth L. Roberts								44th-45th 1969–70
46th-47th 1971–72	Curtis Jones				Thomas J. Green					Rodney M. Hall	Harold D. Schreier	Oscar Austad		Thomas P. Mills			Robert T. Collingwood			Don A. Bierle			Robert "Bob" Miller		Eldon L. Smith [38]			G. Homer Harding		John P. "Pat" Flynn					Franklin Jay Wallahan [39]	Charles E. Donnelly, Jr.	Homer Kandaras								46th-47th 1971–72
																									Jacob Kunstle [40]										Grace Mickelson [41]
48th-49th 1973–74				Arlo Leddy	Jacob J. Krull, Jr.	Harvey L. Wollman			Jack Jackson				Jerome Mayer		Holger Anderson	Michael J. O'Connor [42]	Harold Anderson	Eugene R. Mahan						Theodore Lerew	A. W. Spiry	William Lane Grams	G. Homer Harding	Clint Roberts	Billie H. Sutton [43]	Kenneth A. Trask	James B. Dunn	Grace Mickelson	Charles E. Donnelly, Jr.	Homer Kandaras	John R. Riedy			District 29 eliminated from 1973 to 1985							48th-49th 1973–74
50th-51st 1975–76			Frances S. Lamont			Mary A. McClure [44]	John E. Bibby					Sheldon R. Sonstad		Marilynn Kelm [45]	David H. Billion					Kenneth B. Jones	Jess Tjeerdsma [46]	George H. Shanard	Philip Testerman		LeRoy G. Hoffman					Charles E. Flyte			Robert W. Kelly [47]												50th-51st 1975–76
														Elaine L. McCart [48]
52nd-53rd 1977–78		Robert K. Williams [49]		Harold W. Halverson					Theodore I. Spaulding	Milton E. Nelson			Henry Carlson, Jr.	Wendell H. Hanson			Roger D. McKellips							Robert Hoffman								Lyndell Hans Petersen	Donald Frankenfeld	Franklin Owen Simpson	Eldon S. Jensen										52nd-53rd 1977–78
																Jerome Mayer [50]					Robert "Bob" Lyons [51]
54th-55th 1979–80									Paul S. Tschetter			Arnold E. Amundson	Alva W. Scarbrough	Richard D. Flynn	Richard O. Gregerson		Harold Anderson			Donald C. Peterson	Carrol V. "Red" Allen				James L. Stoick			Mavis T. Hogen	Doris P. Miner	Marshall J. Truax				Carl Ham											54th-55th 1979–80
56th-57th 1981–82									Leland Kleinsasser	Clyde E. Streff	Wallace B. Hanson	Walter I. Bones		Wendell H. Hanson		Michael J. O'Connor	Roger D. McKellips						Robert N. Duxbury			Robert Lloyd Samuelson				Jack Manke					John L. Browne										56th-57th 1981–82
58th-59th 1983–84					Thomas E. Roby		Walter C. "Walt" Conahan			Walter I. Bones		Gary W. Hanson		Henry Carlson, Jr.	Tom Krueger	Robert R. Giebink		Tim Johnson	Elmer A. Bietz				Clyde E. Streff	G. Homer Harding			Richard W. Waddell	Thomas E. Shortbull																	58th-59th 1983–84
60th-61st 1985–86		Frances S. Lamont		David S. Laustsen [52]			Harold W. Halverson	Walter C. "Walt" Conahan	Henry A. Poppen			Sheldon R. Sonstad					Keith Paisley	Gary W. Hanson	Tom Krueger	Karen Muenster	Roger D. McKellips	Tim Johnson	Elmer A. Bietz	Donald C. Peterson	Leonard E. Andera	George H. Shanard	James A. Burg	Leland Paul Kleinsasser	G. Homer Harding	James L. Stoick	Bruce L. Walker	Richard W. Waddell			Thomas E. Shortbull			Doris P. Miner	Jack Manke [53]	James B. Dunn	Lyndell Petersen	Ed Glassgow	Carl Ham	John L. Browne	60th-61st 1985–86
62nd-63rd 1987–88	Paul N. Symens			William R. Taylor [54]	Dorothy M. Kellogg														Randall J. Austad			Roland A. Chicoine		Carrol V. "Red" Allen			Clyde E. Streff												James W. Emery [55]				Michael G. Diedrich		62nd-63rd 1987–88
64th-65th 1989–90		Lars Herseth				Scott N. Heidepriem [56]		Mary Kathryn Wagner				Pam Nelson						Richard Belatti										Charlie Flowers	Jacqueline A. Kelley						Gary D. Nelson							Judy Olson		William J. Johnson	64th-65th 1989–90
66th-67th 1991–92										Roberta A. Rasmussen	Gerald F. Lange								Linda L. Stensland						Eleanor Saukerson		JoAnn Morford		Mike Rounds		Carol Maicki	Roger A. Porch			Paul Valandra								Bob Haskell		66th-67th 1991–92
68th-69th 1993–94				James F. "Jim" Lawler	Harold W. Halverson	Dale L. Howlett	Randall Davis Frederick	Richard B. Negstad [57]	Gerald F. Lange	Mark E. Rogen	Chet Jones							Dennis Pierson		Rebecca Dunn		Roberta A. Rasmussen	Bernie Hunhoff	Frank Kloucek	Mel Olson	Charlie Flowers		Darrell Bender		Eleanor Saukerson	Roger A. Porch	Paul Valandra			William J. Johnson			Leslie J. Kleven [58]			Michael Gordon Diedrich	Lyndell Petersen	Jerry J. Shoener	Sharon V. Green	68th-69th 1993–94
70th-71st 1995–96	Lee Schoenbeck					Jim D. Thompson [59]												Kermit Staggers [60]	Barbara Everist		Donn C. Larson									Jim Hutmacher											Mitchell C. LaFleur	Fred Whiting		Alan Aker	70th-71st 1995–96
72nd-73rd 1997–98	Paul N. Symens	H. Paul Dennert						Arnold M. Brown [61]		Dennis Daugaard	Dave Munson [62]	Dick Hainje [63]									Kenneth D. Albers	John J. Reedy						Robert Drake			Robert Benson							Marguerite Kleven [64]	Drue J. Vitter		Arlene H. Ham				72nd-73rd 1997–98
74th-75th 1999–2000						Donald "Don" Brosz [65]																	Gary A. Moore				Robert M. Duxbury								Eric H. Bogue									Cheryl Madden	74th-75th 1999–2000
76th-77th 2001–02				Elmer Diedtrich	Larry Diedrich [66]		Brock Greenfield		Dan Sutton [67]			Rebekah A. Cradduck [68]					John R. McIntyre	Dick M. Kelly [69]		Gil Koetzle				J.E. "Jim" Putnam	Ed Olson	Ron J. Volesky			Patricia de Hueck		John Koskan	Richard "Dick" Hagen [70]								Jerry Apa			Royal "Mac" McCracken		76th-77th 2001–02
78th-79th 2003–04				Duane O. Sutton		Lee Schoenbeck				Tom Dempster	Gene G. Abdallah [71]	Mike Jaspers [72]					William F. Earley		Dave Knudson					Frank Kloucek		Sam Nachtigal		Jay Duenwald		Clarence L. Kooistra		Michael LaPointe [73]										J. P. Duniphan [74]		William Napoli	78th-79th 2003–04
80th-81st 2005–06	Gary D. Hanson	Jim Hundstad			Jim Peterson			Orville B. Smidt				Jason M. Gant									Mike Broderick	Ben Nesselhuf				Julie Bartling	Tom Hansen		Bob Gray			Theresa Two Bulls						Kenneth McNenny	Jim Lintz		Stan Adelstein [75]				80th-81st 2005–06
82nd-83rd 2007–08				Alan C. Hoerth		Nancy Turbak Berry											Sandy Jerstad	Scott N. Heidepriem [76]			Kenneth D. Albers		Jean Hunhoff			Cooper Garnos				Arlen "Arnie" Hauge	Julie Bartling				Ryan Maher						Tom Katus	Dennis Schmidt			82nd-83rd 2007–08
84th-85th 2009-2010				Al Novstrup			Art Fryslie	Pamela Merchant	Russ Olson											Kathy Miles	Margaret Gillespie				Mike Vehle			Corey Brown		Dan Ahlers		Jim Bradford [77]						Larry Rhoden	Gordon Howie	Tom Nelson	Stan Adelstein		Craig Tieszen	Jeff Haverly	84th-85th 2009-2010
86th-87th 2011-2012	Jason Frerichs				Tim Begalka	Ried Holien		Larry Tidemann		Deb Peters	Shantel Krebs	Todd Schlekeway					J. Mark Johnston	Phyllis Heineman	Joni Cutler	Angie Buhl-O'Donnell	Dan Lederman	Eldon Nygaard		J.E. "Jim" Putnam		Kent Juhnke [78]				Timothy Rave	Billie Sutton								Bruce Rampelberg			Elizabeth Kraus			86th-87th 2011-2012
88th-89th 2013-2014		Chuck Welke					Ernie Otten		Chuck Jones [79]			David Omdahl					Blake Curd [80]		Deb Soholt			Tom Jones		Bill Van Gerpen		Billie Sutton	Jim White		Jeff Monroe		Larry Lucas									Bob Ewing	Alan Solano [81]	Phil Jensen		Mark Kirkeby	88th-89th 2013-2014
90th-91st 2015-2016		Brock Greenfield		David Novstrup	Jim Peterson		Ernie Otten		Scott Parsley		Jenna Haggar											Arthur Rusch	Bernie Hunhoff								Troy Heinert				Betty Olson			Gary Cammack						Teri Haverly	90th-91st 2015-2016
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See also

• List of South Dakota state legislatures

References

1. David H. Clark. Died in office March 7, 1891
2. Frank L. Boyce. Died in office December 19, 1896.
3. Martin E. Rudolph. Died in office March 28, 1903.
4. R. H. McCaughey. Died in office July 16, 1906.
5. Gilbert Thoreson. Died in office May 8, 1910
6. James W. Cone. Died in office October 10, 1913
7. Walter E. Van Demark. Died in office January 12, 1916.
8. Lewis John Larson. Died in office July 18, 1933
9. William Wallace Moyes. Died in office in 1930.
10. Martin Ingval Larsen. Died in office September 24, 1930.
11. Earl P. Flowers. Died in office August 23, 1934.
12. James Edwin Williams was elected to the Senate in 1933, but was unable to serve due to illness.
13. Mike Feeney. Died in office February 19, 1937.
14. Jessie E. Sanders. First woman elected to the South Dakota Senate.
15. L. A. Johnson. Resigned in 1957.
16. Charles S. Reed. Died in office February 9, 1947
17. Merton E. Neubauer. Died in office August 15, 1946.
18. V. D. Tidball. Died in office in 1946.
19. John Longstaff. Died in office June 3, 1946.
20. C. F. Manson. Elected to the Senate in 1947, but unable to serve due to illness.
21. Chester E. Solomonson. Died in office r 1952.
22. Joe E. Lehmann. Elected to the Senate in 1961, but failed to qualify. Wilbur Foss appointed to fill the vacancy.
23. Donald J. Stransky. Resigned in 1961.
24. Hagen Kelsey. Resigned in 1963.
25. Carroll Fullerton. Died in office October 1, 1961.
26. F.B. "Bob" Roberts. Appointed January 7, 1957 to fill the vacancy of L. A. Johnson.
27. Wilbur Foss. Appointed January 23, 1961 to fill the vacancy of Joe E. Lehmann. Served during the 38th Session of the Senate, and resigned in 1963.
28. Lars Gjesdal. Appointed July 12, 1961 to fill the vacancy of Donald J. Stransky.
29. Frank L. Hafner. Appointed November 6, 1961 to fill the vacancy of Carroll Fullerton.
30. Rayburn R. Rueb. Appointed September 24, 1963 to fill the vacancy of Wilbur Foss. Served during the 39th Session of the Senate.
31. Herbert A. Willoughby. Appointed July 13, 1963 to fill the vacancy of Hagen Kelsey.
32. Walter Vincent Nordstrom. Died in office May 29, 1967.
33. Robert William Hirsch. Resigned December 1969.
34. Clell D. Elwood. Resigned March 1967. Kenneth A. Trask was appointed to serve during the 43rd Session.
35. Henry T. Quinn. Appointed August 1, 1967 to fill the vacancy of Walter Vincent Nordstrom.
36. William R. Ripp. Appointed December 11, 1969 to fill the vacancy of Robert William Hirsch.
37. Kenneth A. Trask. Appointed March 23, 1967 to fill vacancy of Clell Elwood.
38. Eldon L. Smith. Died in office. Killed in the Rapid City flood of June 9, 1972.
39. Franklin Jay Wallahan. Resigned the summer of 1972.
40. Jacob Kunstle. Appointed July 18, 1972 to fill the vacancy of Eldon L. Smith.
41. Grace Mickelson. Appointed August 25, 1972 to fill the vacancy of Franklin Wallahan.
42. Michael J. O'Connor. Resigned April 1977.
43. This individual is the grandfather of Billie H Sutton, legislator starting in 2011
44. Mary A. McClure. Resigned April 10, 1989 to become Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs for President George H. W. Bush.
45. Marilynn Kelm. Resigned November 1975.
46. Jess Tjeerdsma. Died in office August 20, 1977.
47. Robert W. Kelly. Resigned in 1976. Harold Mortimer-(D) was appointed for the remainder of the 51st Session.
48. Elaine L. McCart. Appointed November 19, 1975 to fill the vacancy of Marilynn Kelm.
49. Robert K. Williams. Resigned November 15, 1983. E. C. Pieplow, who served from 1967 to 1976, was appointed November 28, 1983 to fill the vacancy for the 59th Session.
50. Jerome Mayer. Appointed May 13, 1977 to fill the vacancy of Michael J. O'Connor.
51. Robert "Bob" Lyons. Appointed October 7, 1977 to fill the vacancy of Jess Tjeerdsma.
52. David S. Laustsen. Resigned August 11, 1987.
53. Jack Manke. Died in office August 12, 1985.
54. William R. Taylor. Appointed August 11, 1987 to fill the vacancy of David S. Laustsen.
55. James W. Emery. Appointed December 18, 1985 to fill the vacancy of Jack Manke.
56. Scott N. Heidepriem. Appointed April 27, 1989 to fill the vacancy of Mary A. McClure.
57. Richard B. Negstad. Died in office January 11, 1997.
58. Leslie J. Kleven. Died in office April 19, 1995.
59. Jim D. Thompson. Served during the 70th, 71st, and 72nd Sessions. Resigned December 31, 1997.
60. Kermit Staggers. Served during the 70th through 76th Sessions. Resigned May 20, 2002.
61. Arnold M. Brown. Appointed January 22, 1997 to fill the vacancy of Richard B. Negstad.
62. Dave Munson. Served during the 72nd through 76th Sessions. Resigned May 12, 2002.
63. Dick Hainje. Resigned November 12, 2001. Appointed by President George W. Bush as Regional Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Region VII.
64. Marguerite Kleven. Appointed June 9, 1995 to fill the vacancy of her husband Leslie J. Kleven.
65. Donald "Don" Brosz. Appointed January 1, 1998 to fill the vacancy of Jim D. Thompson.
66. Larry Diedrich. Resigned January 26, 2004 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Al Kurtenbach-(R) was appointed January 27, 2004 for the remainder of the 79th Session.
67. Dan Sutton. Resigned November 14, 2006. Re-elected to the 82nd and 83rd Sessions November 7, 2006.
68. Rebekah A. Cradduck. Appointed December 4, 2001 to fill the vacancy of Dick Hainje.
69. Dick M. Kelly. Appointed July 1, 2002 to fill the vacancy of Kermit Staggers.
70. Richard E. "Dick" Hagen. Died in office September 22, 2002. Elected to the Senate posthumously.
71. Gene G. Abdallah. Appointed July 1, 2002 to fill the vacancy of Dave Munson.
72. Mike Jaspers. Appointed January 7, 2003 to fill the vacancy of Mitch Richter, who was elected in 2003 but never served.
73. Michael LaPointe. Appointed January 7, 2003 to fill the vacancy of Dick Hagen.
74. J. P. Duniphan. Defeated in 2006 Republican Primary by Dennis Schmidt-(R).
75. Stan Adelstein. Defeated in 2006 Republican Primary by Elli Schwiesow-(R).
76. Scott N. Heidepriem. Previously served 1990–1992 as a Republican from the 5th District.
77. Switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party in 2008. Switched back in 2010.
78. Appointed by Governor Dennis Daugaard to replace Cooper Garnos after 2011 session.
79. Appointed by Governor Dennis Daugaard to replace Russel Olson after 2013 session.
80. Appointed by Governor Dennis Daugaard to replace J. Mark Johnston after 2013 session.
81. Appointed by Governator Dennis Daugaard to replace Stan Adelstein after 2013 session.

Sources

• South Dakota Secretary of State – 2005 South Dakota Legislative Manual
• South Dakota Secretary of State – Past Elections
• South Dakota Legislature – Legislator Historical Listing