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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South DakotaNORBECK, Peter
(1870—1936)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1936
Party:
Republican
NORBECK, Peter, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Vermillion, Clay County, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota), August 27, 1870; attended the public schools and the University of South Dakota at Vermillion; moved to Redfield, Spink County, S.Dak., in 1900; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in 1895 also engaged as a contractor and driller of deep water, oil, and gas wells; member, State senate 1909-1915; lieutenant governor 1915-1916; Governor of South Dakota 1917-1921; was instrumental in the establishment of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920; reelected in 1926 and 1932 and served from March 4, 1921, until his death; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Sixty-ninth Congress), Committee on Banking and Currency (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses); died in Redfield, S.Dak., December 20, 1936; interment in Bloomington Church Cemetery, near Platte, S.Dak.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Fite, Gilbert. Peter Norbeck: Prairie Statesman
. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1948; Norbeck, Lydia. “Recollections of the Years.” Edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal. South Dakota Historical Collections
39 (1978): 1-147.
Fite, Gilbert C. Peter Norbeck: Prairie Statesman
. Columbia: University of Missouri, 1948.
___. “Peter Norbeck and the Defeat of the Nonpartisan League in South Dakota.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review
33 (September 1946): 217-36.
Koupal, Nancy Tystad, ed. “Lydia Norbeck’s ‘Recollections of the Years’.” South Dakota Historical Collections
39 (1978): 1-147.
Norbeck, Peter, and George Norbeck. The Norbecks of South Dakota
. Redfield, SD: n.p., 1938.
Olsgaard, John N. “Dakota Resources: The Peter Norbeck Papers at the University of South Dakota.” South Dakota History
10 (Spring 1980): 147-51.
Pressler, Larry. “Peter Norbeck.” In U.S. Senators from the Prairie
, pp. 77-89. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982.
U.S. Congress. House. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together With Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Peter Norbeck, Late a Senator from South Dakota
. 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1938.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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