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11-504: Important members in the history of the South Dakota Democratic Party include Dick Kneip, Jim Abourezk, George McGovern, Tom Daschle, Tim Johnson and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. The Democrats won South Dakota's first U.S. Senate election by popular vote, held in 1914, with their first statewide elected official, Edwin S. Johnson . This was their first success since William Jennings Bryan successfully campaigned (a novelty at

22-649: A number of banks in South Dakota, Minnesota , and Iowa. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1888 and practiced; he was prosecuting attorney of Douglas County in 1892-1893 and was a member of the South Dakota State Senate in 1894-1895. He retired from the banking business in 1902 and engaged in the real estate and loan business at Platte, South Dakota ; he was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1904 to 1916. Johnson

33-517: A slim one seat majority in the Senate, even slimmer tie breaking control in the House and a re-election win by Governor Richard F. Kneip . An electronic voterbase and superior get-out-the-vote operation helped many overcome long-time Republican incumbents who had become lethargic campaigners. At about the same time in 1968, South Dakota Democrats gained a relatively small but increasingly active voting group when

44-569: The Indian Civil Rights Act was passed. Since then, the state has created house districts 28A (in 1996) and 26A (in 2012) as majority-minority districts. Since their heyday in the seventies, South Dakota Democrats have since seen their influence decline in the state. Currently, 31% of South Dakota voters are registered as Democrats compared to 46% registered as Republicans, and only 11 of 105 state house and senate delegates are Democrats. The South Dakota Democratic Party does not hold any of

55-649: The U.S. Senate for nine more years as his party came to power at the state level. Forty years after the New Dealers had brokered a tenuous, short-lived agreement with the farmers and workers of South Dakota and ninety years after The Boy Orator of the Platte wooed voters on his "Whirlwind through the Midwest", the Democrats were back. This time, they rode two decades of failed farm politics and favorite son McGovern's election bid to

66-581: The 40s and 50s, a young two-term House member and Kennedy administration veteran with a strong understanding of agricultural policy, George McGovern , changed the party's fortunes when he squeaked out a win against incumbent Joe Foss in 1962's Senate election . An ardent opponent of the Vietnam War , McGovern's popularity and profile were on an upward trajectory that would only be shadowed by his presidential run in 1972 . Despite his landslide loss to Republican incumbent Richard Nixon , he continued to serve in

77-450: The public schools. He engaged in the mercantile business, and moved to Wheeler County, Nebraska in 1880 where he homesteaded and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He returned to Osceola, in 1881 and was employed as a bank cashier; in 1884, he moved to South Dakota and established the Citizens' Bank of Grand View, South Dakota , and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He later established

88-672: The real estate and loan business and died in Platte in 1933. Interment was in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Armour, South Dakota . South Dakota State Senate Minority party 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 . In 2010, Democrat Angie Buhl became

99-710: The statewide offices and is a minority in both the South Dakota Senate and the South Dakota House of Representatives. Democrats do not have any members in the state's U.S. congressional delegation. Edwin S. Johnson Edwin Stockton Johnson (February 26, 1857 – July 19, 1933) was a United States senator from South Dakota . Born in Owen County, Indiana near Spencer , he moved with his parents to Osceola, Iowa , in 1857 and attended

110-645: The time) for the state's electoral votes in 1896 with help from an agrarian crisis. Nevertheless, it was not until the sweeping elections of 1932 that the Democratic Party took firm control as the party of the New Deal . With supermajorities in the state legislature and control of the governorship, the Democrats were able to set about securing newly available federal aid, replacing property tax with income and sales taxes, and instituting unemployment insurance. While Democrats managed only one solid two-year election cycle in

121-560: Was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1912, but was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1914 and served from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1921. He was the first Senator popularly elected from South Dakota and also the first Democrat to represent South Dakota in the Senate. He retired from the Senate after his first term. While in the Senate, Johnson was chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses). He resumed his activities in

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