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South Dakota is one of 15 states alongside California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator. South Dakota's class 3 seat also holds the distinction of having a future Senate Majority Leader ...
The conference chairman is the third-ranking position in the Senate. In late 2011, the Mitchell Daily Republic wrote: "Thune's elevation to the No. 3 spot makes him the highest-ranking Republican senator in South Dakota history. Thune has served as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 2009 until the present time and was vice ...
The Senate is the upper house of the South Dakota Legislature. It consists of 35 members, one representing each legislative district . It meets at the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre .
Only one other South Dakota senator has won four terms: Sen. Karl Mundt, whose time in Congress from the 1930s to the 1970s inspired a joke in state political circles known as the “Curse of Karl
South Dakota Senate: South Dakota State University : January 3, 2015 2026 Class 2 Fort Pierre [24] Tennessee: Marsha Blackburn: Republican June 6, 1952 (age 72) Executive Director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission
The Murdo native is the second South Dakota senator to take the top rank after former Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, who held the role from 1995 to 2005.
These are tables of congressional delegations from South Dakota to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. The current dean of the South Dakota delegation is Senator and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, having served in the Senate since 2005, and previously serving in the House from 1997 until 2003.
James George Abourezk (/ ˈ æ b ər ɛ s k / AB-ur-esk; [1] February 24, 1931 – February 24, 2023) was an American attorney and politician from South Dakota.A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress for one term each; a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973 and a member of the United States Senate from 1973 to ...