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South Dakota is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes,who comprise a large portion of the population with nine reservations currently in the state and have historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the seventeenth largest by area,but the 5th least populous,and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory,South Dakota became a state on November 2,1889,simultaneously with North Dakota. They are the 39th and 40th states admitted to the union;President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers before signing them so that no one could tell which became a state first. Pierre is the state capital,and Sioux Falls,with a population of about 192,200,is South Dakota's largest city.
The Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC),formerly the Gateway Football Conference,is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a football-only conference.
The University of South Dakota (USD) is a public research university in Vermillion,South Dakota. Established by the Dakota Territory legislature in 1862,27 years before the establishment of the state of South Dakota,USD is the flagship university for the state of South Dakota and the state's oldest public university. It occupies a 274 acres (1.11 km2) campus located in southeastern South Dakota,approximately 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Sioux Falls,39 miles (63 km) northwest of Sioux City,Iowa,and north of the Missouri River.
These are tables of congressional delegations from South Dakota to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
The Dakota,Minnesota and Eastern Railroad is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Before its purchase,it was the largest Class II railroad in the United States,operating across South Dakota and southern Minnesota in the Northern Plains of the United States. Portions of the railroad also extended into Wyoming,Nebraska,Iowa,and Illinois. It interchanged with all seven U.S. Class I railroads.
Hannah Dakota Fanning is an American actress. She rose to prominence at the age of seven for her performance as Lucy Dawson in the drama film I Am Sam (2001),for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination at the age of eight,making her the youngest nominee in SAG history. Fanning played major roles as a child actress in the films Uptown Girls (2003),The Cat in the Hat (2003),Man on Fire (2004),War of the Worlds (2005),Dreamer (2005),and Charlotte's Web (2006),and the eponymous character in Coraline (2009).
The Dakota are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people,and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota.
The structure of the Government of South Dakota is based on that of the federal government,with three branches of government:executive,legislative,and judicial. The structure of the state government is laid out in the Constitution of South Dakota,the highest law in the state. The constitution may be amended either by a majority vote of both houses of the legislature,or by voter initiative.
The 1932 United States Senate election in South Dakota took place on November 8,1932. Incumbent Republican Senator Peter Norbeck ran for re-election to a third term. After easily turning back a challenge from former State Senator Harry F. Brownell in the Republican primary,Norbeck faced attorney Ulysses Simpson Grant Cherry,the Democratic nominee,in the general election. Owing in part to Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory in South Dakota,the race was much closer than it was in 1926,but Norbeck still defeated Cherry by a decisive margin to win his third,and final,term. Norbeck died in office on December 20,1936,triggering a special election in 1938.
The 2005 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level,began on January 21,2005. The season progressed through the regular season,many conference tournaments and championship series,and concluded with the 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament and 2005 College World Series. The College World Series,which consisted of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA tournament,was held in its annual location of Omaha,Nebraska,at Rosenblatt Stadium. It concluded on June 26,2005,with the final game of the best of three championship series. Texas defeated Florida two games to none to claim its sixth championship.
Paleontology in South Dakota refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of South Dakota. South Dakota is an excellent source of fossils as finds have been widespread throughout the state. During the early Paleozoic era South Dakota was submerged by a shallow sea that would come to be home to creatures like brachiopods,cephalopods,corals,and ostracoderms. Local sea levels rose and fall during the Carboniferous and the sea left completely during the Permian. During the Triassic,the state became a coastal plain,but by the Jurassic it was under a sea where ammonites lived. Cretaceous South Dakota was also covered by a sea that was home to mosasaurs. The sea remained in place after the start of the Cenozoic before giving way to a terrestrial mammal fauna including the camel Poebrotherium,three-toed horses,rhinoceroses,saber-toothed cat,and titanotheres. During the Ice Age glaciers entered the state,which was home to mammoths and mastodons. Local Native Americans interpreted fossils as the remains of the water monster Unktehi and used bits of Baculites shells in magic rituals to summon buffalo herds. Local fossils came to the attention of formally trained scientists with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Cretaceous horned dinosaur Triceratops horridus is the South Dakota state fossil.
The 1920 United States Senate election in South Dakota took place on November 2,1920. Incumbent Democratic Senator Edwin S. Johnson declined to seek re-election to a second term. In the Democratic primary,attorney Ulysses Simpson Grant Cherry defeated former State Senator Louis Napoleon Crill and former U.S. Marshal Tom Taubman,while in the Republican primary,Governor Peter Norbeck defeated former State Supreme Court Justice Dick Haney. In the general election,Cherry and Norbeck faced a litany of independent candidates,including Nonpartisan League candidate Tom Ayres. Benefiting from the split in left-wing candidates,Norbeck won by a wide margin,with Ayres narrowly beating out Cherry for second place.
The 2022 United States Senate election in South Dakota was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of South Dakota. Incumbent three-term Republican U.S. Senator John Thune,who is the Senate Minority Whip,was first elected in 2004,defeating Democratic incumbent Tom Daschle,then the Senate Minority Leader. He ran for reelection to a fourth term. The Democratic nominee was a 26-year Navy,Air Force JAG Corps Veteran,and former college professor Brian Bengs. Thune was ultimately reelected.
Steven Joseph Barnett is an American Republican politician who serves as the Secretary of State of South Dakota. He previously served as state auditor of South Dakota (2011–2019).
The 1918 United States Senate election in South Dakota took place on November 5,1918. Incumbent Republican Senator Thomas Sterling sought re-election in his first popular election. He defeated former Governor Frank M. Byrne in the Republican primary and then faced former State Representative Orville Rinehart,the 1916 Democratic nominee for Governor,in the general election. Sterling defeated Rinehart,along with independent candidate W. T. Rafferty,by a wide margin to win re-election.
The 1950 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 7,1950. Incumbent Republican Governor George T. Mickelson was unable to seek re-election to a third term due to newly imposed term limits. Accordingly,a competitive race to replace him ensued. Attorney General Sigurd Anderson won a slim plurality in the Republican primary,barely exceeding 35% and narrowly avoiding having the Republican nomination sent to the state party convention. In the general election,Anderson faced State Representative Joe Robbie. Anderson easily defeated Robbie,winning his first term with 61% of the vote to Robbie's 39%.
The 1934 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1934. Incumbent Democratic Governor Tom Berry ran for re-election to a second term. After defeating an intra-party challenge from Lieutenant Governor Hans Ustrud,Berry faced magazine publisher William C. Allen,who won a crowded Republican primary with a large plurality. Aided by the national environment favoring Democrats,Berry won re-election in a landslide.
The 1938 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1938. Incumbent Republican Governor Leslie Jensen declined to seek re-election and instead unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate. Harlan J. Bushfield,the former Chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party,won the Republican primary to succeed Jensen. In the general election,he faced Democratic nominee Oscar Fosheim,a State Representative from Miner County,in the general election. Bushfield defeated Fosheim by a relatively close margin,winning his first term as governor.