Huron is a city in Beadle County,South Dakota,United States. It is the county seat of Beadle County. The Huron Daily Plainsman,also referred to as the Plainsman,is the newspaper. The first settlement at Huron was made in 1880. The city was named after the Huron Indians. It is currently the eighth largest city in South Dakota,but it once was the fourth. In recent years,Huron's population has once again started to grow after nearly 20 years of stagnation. A welcoming immigration policy coupled with an economic revival in the area has sparked development. A Walmart Supercenter opened in the mid 2000s. Since Walmart's opening more commercial and residential development has occurred with the completion of a new Runnings store,and many new apartments,twin homes and houses.
William John Janklow was an American lawyer and politician and member of the Republican Party who holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota:sixteen years in office. Janklow had the third-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,851 days.
Richard Franklin Pettigrew was an American lawyer,surveyor,and land developer. He represented the Dakota Territory in the U.S. Congress and,after the Dakotas were admitted as States,he was the first U.S. Senator from South Dakota.
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was an American politician,lawyer,and jurist from Massachusetts. He served as U.S. Attorney General from 1869 to 1870,and was the first head of the newly created Department of Justice. Hoar assisted President Ulysses S. Grant in appointing two United States Supreme Court justices and was himself nominated to the Court. His nomination was rejected by the United States Senate,in part for his positions on patronage reform. In 1871,Hoar was appointed by Grant to the United States high commission that negotiated the Treaty of Washington between the U.S. and the United Kingdom,helping to settle the Alabama Claims.
Henry Brewster Stanton was an American abolitionist,social reformer,attorney,journalist and politician. His writing was published in the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, and William Lloyd Garrison's Anti-Slavery Standard and The Liberator. He was elected to the New York State Senate in 1850 and 1851. His wife,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,was a world renowned leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
William Henry Parker was an American attorney,South Dakota politician,and American Civil War veteran. Parker served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Colorado and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota.
Coe Isaac Crawford was an American attorney and politician from South Dakota. He served as the sixth Governor and as a U.S. 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.
Alexander Hamilton Rice was an American politician and businessman from Massachusetts. He served as Mayor of Boston from 1856 to 1857,a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War,and as the 30th Governor of Massachusetts from 1876–78. He was part owner and president of Rice-Kendall,one of the nation's largest paper products distributors.
Philo Hall was a South Dakota attorney and politician. He served as Attorney General of South Dakota and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts played a significant role in national events prior to and during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Massachusetts dominated the early antislavery movement during the 1830s,motivating activists across the nation. This,in turn,increased sectionalism in the North and South,one of the factors that led to the war. Politicians from Massachusetts,echoing the views of social activists,further increased national tensions. The state was dominated by the Republican Party and was also home to many Radical Republican leaders who promoted harsh treatment of slave owners and,later,the former civilian leaders of the Confederate States of America and the military officers in the Confederate States Army.
The Attorney General of South Dakota is the state attorney general of the U.S. state of South Dakota. The attorney general is elected by popular vote to a four-year term and holds an executive position as the state's chief legal officer. In 1992,the voters approved a Constitutional Amendment to limit all constitutional officers and the governor to two consecutive four year terms.
George Theodore Mickelson was an American lawyer,16th Attorney General of South Dakota and 18th Governor of South Dakota,and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota. He is the patriarch of the prominent Mickelson family of South Dakota.
Alphonso George Kellam was an American lawyer,judge,and Republican politician. He was one of the original justices of the South Dakota Supreme Court,and previously served one term the Wisconsin State Assembly. He also served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.
The 2012 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 6,2012,as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. South Dakota voters chose three electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate,Vice President Joe Biden,against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate,Congressman Paul Ryan.
Sioux Kingsbury Grigsby was an attorney and politician in the United States state of South Dakota. Grigsby was born into a prominent pioneering family,Kingsbury family in South Dakota and set up a law practice which he would maintain for over 60 years. Grigsby served as state representative,state senator,and Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota from 1945 to 1949.
Larry Rhoden is an American politician and businessman serving as the 39th lieutenant governor of South Dakota since 2019. A Republican,he previously served in both houses of the South Dakota Legislature.
Gordon James Mydland is an American former attorney and politician who served as the Attorney General of South Dakota. He was also a state senator,and a circuit court judge.
John L. Pyle was an attorney and politician from the state of South Dakota. A Republican,he was notable for his service as State's Attorney of Hand County (1886-1888) and state Attorney General (1899-1902).
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.
