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BUSHFIELD, Harlan John

(1882—1948)

Senate Years of Service: 1943-1948
Party: Republican

BUSHFIELD, Harlan John, (husband of Vera C. Bushfield), a Senator from South Dakota; born in Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa, August 6, 1882; moved with his parents to South Dakota in 1883; attended the public schools in Miller, S.Dak., and Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak. 1899-1901; graduated from the Minnesota University Law School at Minneapolis in 1904; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Miller, S.Dak.; Governor of South Dakota 1939-1942; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 and served from January 3, 1943, until his death in Miller, S.Dak., September 27, 1948; interment in the G.A.R. Cemetery.


Bibliography

U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Harlan John Bushfield . 81st Cong., 2nd sess., 1948. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1950; Pressler, Larry. “Harlan J. Bushfield.” In U.S. Senators from the Prairie , pp. 124-28. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982.

Pressler, Larry. “Harlan J. Bushfield.” In U.S. Senators from the Prairie , pp. 124-28. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982.

U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Harlan John Bushfield, Late a Senator from South Dakota . 81st Cong., 1st sess., 1949. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present

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