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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South DakotaGladys PYLE
(1890-1989)
Senate Years of Service:
1938-1939Party: RepublicanPYLE, Gladys, a Senator
from South Dakota; born in Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak., October 4,
1890; attended the public schools; graduated from Huron (S.Dak.)
College in 1911; taught in the public high schools at Miller,
Wessington, and Huron, S.Dak., 1912-1918; first woman member of the
State house of representatives 1923-1927; served as secretary of
State of South Dakota 1927-1931; unsuccessful candidate for
Republican nomination for governor 1930; member of the State
securities commission 1931-1933; engaged in the life insurance
business; elected on November 8, 1938, as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Peter Norbeck and served from November 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939;
was not a candidate for election in 1938 to the full term; resumed
the life insurance business and also engaged in farm management;
member of the South Dakota Board of Charities and Corrections
1943-1957; agent for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
1950-1986; died in Huron, S.Dak., March 14, 1989; cremated, ashes
interred in Riverside Cemetery.
Bibliography
Kinyon, Jeanette, and Jean Walz. The Incredible Gladys Pyle.
Vermillion, S.Dak.: Dakota Press, University of South Dakota, 1985;
Pressler, Larry. “Gladys Pyle.” In U.S. Senators
from the Prairie, pp. 112-13. Vermillion, S.Dak.: Dakota Press,
1982.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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