Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota

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Dennis Daugaard is the current Lt. Governor of South Dakota.

The Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota is the second-ranking member of the executive branch of South Dakota state government, and also serves as presiding officer of the South Dakota State Senate. The lieutenant governor succeeds to the officer of governor if the office becomes vacant, and may also serve as acting governor if the governor is incapacited or absent from the state.

The current lieutenant governor is Dennis Daugaard.

The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor. Six lieutenant governors have gone on to be elected governor in their own right: Charles N. Herreid, Frank M. Byrne, Peter Norbeck, William H. McMaster, Carl Gunderson, and Nils Boe. Two others, Harvey L. Wollman and Walter Dale Miller, succeeded to the office of governor when it became vacant, but neither successfully won reelection.

Carole Hillard became the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor when she was elected in 1994.

[edit] List of Lieutenant Governors of South Dakota

#	Lt. Governor	Party	From	To
1	James H. Fletcher	Republican	1889	1891
2	George H. Hoffman	Republican	1891	1893
3	Charles N. Herreid	Republican	1893	1897
4	Daniel T. Hindman	Republican	1897	1899
5	John T. Kean	Republican	1899	1901
6	George W. Snow	Republican	1901	1905
7	John E. McDougall	Republican	1905	1907
8	Howard C. Shober	Republican	1907	1911
9	Frank M. Byrne	Republican	1911	1913
10	Edward Lincoln Abel	Republican	1913	1915
11	Peter Norbeck	Republican	1915	1917
12	William H. McMaster	Republican	1917	1921
13	Carl Gunderson	Republican	1921	1925
14	Alva Clark Forney	Republican	1925	1927
15	Hyatt E. Covey	Republican	1927	1929
16	Clarence E. Coyne¹	Republican	1929	1929
17	John T. Grigsby¹	Democrat	1929	1931
18	Odell K. Whitney	Republican	1931	1933
19	Hans Ustrud	Democrat	1933	1935
20	Robert Peterson	Democrat	1935	1937
21	Donald McMurchie	Republican	1937	1941
22	A. C. Miller	Republican	1941	1945
23	Sioux K. Grigsby	Republican	1945	1949
24	Rex A. Terry	Republican	1949	1955
25	L. Roy Houck	Republican	1955	1959
26	John F. Lindley	Democrat	1959	1961
27	Joseph H. Bottum	Republican	1961	1963
28	Nils Boe	Republican	1963	1965
29	Lem Overpeck	Republican	1965	1969
30	James Abdnor	Republican	1969	1971
31	William Dougherty	Democrat	1971	1975
32	Harvey L. Wollman²	Democrat	1975	1978
33	Lowell C. Hansen II	Republican	1979	1987
34	Walter Dale Miller³	Republican	1987	1993
35	Steve T. Kirby³	Republican	1993	1995
36	Carole Hillard⁴	Republican	1995	2003
37	Dennis Daugaard	Republican	2003

[edit] Notes

¹Clarence E. Coyne died on May 27, 1929, and John T. Grigsby was appointed to fill the vacancy.
²Harvey L. Wollman succeeded to the office of governor on July 24, 1978 upon the resignation of Governor Richard F. Kneip. No appointment was made to fill the vacancy.
³Walter Dale Miller succeeded to the office of governor on April 19, 1993 after Governor George S. Mickelson was killed in a plane crash. Steve T. Kirby was appointed to fill the vacancy.
⁴Carole Hillard was the first woman to serve as Lt. Governor of South Dakota.