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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South DakotaBenjamin REIFEL
(1906-1990)
REIFEL, Benjamin, a
Representative from South Dakota; born on the Rosebud Indian
Reservation near Parmelee, Todd County, S.Dak., September 19, 1906;
attended Todd County rural schools; B.S., South Dakota State
College, 1932; M.A., 1949, and a Ph.D., 1952, in public
administration, Harvard University; served in the United States
Army as a lieutenant colonel from 1942 to 1945, with service in
Europe; employed by the Department of the Interior since 1933,
resigning as Aberdeen area administrator in the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in March 1960; elected as a Republican to the
Eighty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1961-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection in 1970
to the Ninety-second Congress; was a resident of Estelline, S.Dak.,
and Largo, Fla., until his death in Sioux Falls, S.Dak., on January
2, 1990.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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