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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South DakotaPeter NORBECK
(1870-1936)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1936Party: RepublicanNORBECK, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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