List of speakers of the South Dakota House of Representatives

Last updated August 04, 2024

This is a comprehensive list of speakers of the South Dakota House of Representatives since statehood in 1889.^[1]

For information about the House of Representatives, see South Dakota House of Representatives

Five South Dakota speakers have gone on to serve as governor.

#	Speaker	Party	City	County	Term	Other office	Term
1	Sutton E. Young	Republican	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1889–1890
2	Charles X. Seward		Watertown	Codington	1891–1892
3	James Marshall Lawson		Aberdeen	Brown	1893–1894	State Senator SD President Pro Tempore	1899–1906 1901–1902
4	Charles Tisdale Howard		Redfield	Spink	1895–1896
5	John Colvin	Populist	Mitchell	Davison	1897–1898
6	Albert G. Somers	Republican	Strouseton	Grant	1899–1902
7	John L. Browne		Aberdeen	Brown	1903–1906
8	Morris J. Chaney		Wakonda	Clay	1907–1910
9	Charles J. Morris		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1911–1912
10	Peter J. Tscharner		Lemmon	Perkins	1913–1914
11	Charles A. Christopherson		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1915–1916	U.S. Congressman	1919–1933
12	A.C. Roberts		Pierpont	Day	1917–1918
13	Lewis Benson		Flandreau	Moody	1919–1920
14	Christian O. Berdahl		Garretson	Minnehaha	1921–1922
15	Emmet Orville Frescoln		Winner	Tripp	1923–1924
16	Charles S. McDonald		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1925–1926
17	Ray F. Williamson		Aberdeen	Brown	1927–1928
18	Daniel K. Loucks		Watertown	Codington	1929–1930
19	B.W. McVeigh		Britton	Marshall	1931–1932
20	George Abild	Democratic	Pukwana	Brule	1933–1934
21	W. J. Eggert	Democratic	Rockham	Faulk	1935–1936
22	Albert C. Miller	Republican	Kennebec	Lyman	1937–1940	Lieutenant Governor South Dakota Attorney General	1941–1945 1961-1963
23	George T. Mickelson		Selby	Walworth	1941–1942	South Dakota Attorney General Governor	1943–1947 1947–1951
24	O.H. Hove		Colman	Moody	1943–1944
25	Anton Christian Halls		Garretson	Minnehaha	1945–1946
26	George Wininger Mills		Wall	Pennington	1947–1948
27	Arthur E. Munck		Pierre	Hughes	1949–1950
28	Hugh H. Stokes		Flandreau	Moody	1951–1952
29	Hobart H. Gates		Custer	Custer	1953–1954
30	Nils A. Boe		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1955–1958	Lieutenant Governor Governor	1963–1965 1965–1969
31	Archie M. Gubbrud		Alcester	Lincoln	1959–1960	Governor	1961–1965
32	Carl T. Burgess		Rapid City	Pennington	1961–1962
33	Paul E. Brown		Arlington	Kingsbury	1963–1964
34	Charles C. Droz		Miller	Hand	1965–1966
35	James D. Jelbert		Spearfish	Lawrence	1967–1968
36	Dexter H. Gunderson		Irene	Clay	1969–1970
37	Donald E. Osheim		Watertown	Codington	1971–1972
38	Gene N. Lebrun	Democratic	Rapid City	Pennington	1973–1974
39	Joseph H. Barnett	Republican	Aberdeen	Brown	1975–1976
40	Lowell C. Hansen II		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1977–1978	Lieutenant Governor	1979–1986
41	George S. Mickelson		Brookings	Brookings	1979–1980	Governor	1987–1993
42	Walter Dale Miller		New Underwood	Pennington	1981–1982	Lieutenant Governor Governor	1987–1993 1993–1994
43	Jerome B. Lammers		Madison	Lake	1983–1984
44	Donald J. Ham		Rapid City	Pennington	1985–1986
45	Debra R. Anderson		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1987–1988
46	Royal J. 'Bud' Wood		Warner	Brown	1989–1990
47	E. James 'Jim' Hood		Spearfish	Lawrence	1991–1992
48	Steve K. Cutler		Claremont	Brown	1993–1994
49	Harvey C. Krautschun		Spearfish	Lawrence	1995–1996
50	Rexford A. 'Rex' Hagg		Rapid City	Pennington	1997–1998
51	Roger W. Hunt		Brandon	Minnehaha	1999–2000
52	Scott G. Eccarius		Rapid City	Pennington	2001–2002
53	Matthew J. W. Michels		Yankton	Yankton	2003–2006	Lieutenant Governor	2011–2019
54	Thomas J. Deadrick		Platte	Charles Mix	2007–2010
55	Valentine Rausch		Big Stone City	Grant	2011–2012
56	Brian Gosch		Rapid City	Pennington	2013–2014
57	Dean Wink		Howes	Meade	2015–2016
58	Mark Mickelson		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	2017–2018
59	Steven Haugaard		Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	2019–2020
60	Spencer Gosch		Glenham	Walworth	2021–2022
61	Hugh Bartels		Watertown	Codington	2023–present

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