Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota

Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota
Seal of South Dakota
Incumbent Matt Michels since January 8, 2011
Style	The Honorable
Term length	4 years, renewable once, same election with The governor's Ticket
Inaugural holder	James H. Fletcher, 1889
Formation	Constitution of South Dakota
Salary	$14,400
Website	Governor's Website

The Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota is the lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of South Dakota.

He or she is the second-ranking member of the executive branch of South Dakota state government and also serves as presiding officer of the South Dakota Senate. The lieutenant governor succeeds to the officer of governor if the office becomes vacant, and may also serve as acting governor if the governor is incapacitated or absent from the state.

The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor. Seven lieutenant governors have gone on to be elected governor in their own right: Charles N. Herreid, Frank M. Byrne, Peter Norbeck, William H. McMaster, Carl Gunderson, Nils Boe and Dennis Daugaard. Two others, Harvey L. Wollman and Walter Dale Miller, succeeded to the office of governor when it became vacant, but neither won re-election.

Carole Hillard became the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor when she was elected in 1994.

List of lieutenant governors

Parties

      Democratic       Republican

#	Lt. Governor	Party	From	To
1	James H. Fletcher	Republican	1889	1891
2	George H. Hoffman	Republican	1891	1893
3	Charles N. Herreid	Republican	1893	1897
4	Daniel T. Hindman	Republican	1897	1899
5	John T. Kean	Republican	1899	1901
6	George W. Snow	Republican	1901	1905
7	John E. McDougall	Republican	1905	1907
8	Howard C. Shober	Republican	1907	1911
9	Frank M. Byrne	Republican	1911	1913
10	Edward Lincoln Abel	Republican	1913	1915
11	Peter Norbeck	Republican	1915	1917
12	William H. McMaster	Republican	1917	1921
13	Carl Gunderson	Republican	1921	1925
14	Alva Clark Forney	Republican	1925	1927
15	Hyatt E. Covey	Republican	1927	1929
16	Clarence E. Coyne	Republican	1929	1929
17	John T. Grigsby	Democrat	1929	1931
18	Odell K. Whitney	Republican	1931	1933
19	Hans Ustrud	Democrat	1933	1935
20	Robert Peterson	Democrat	1935	1937
21	Donald McMurchie	Republican	1937	1941
22	A. C. Miller	Republican	1941	1945
23	Sioux K. Grigsby	Republican	1945	1949
24	Rex A. Terry	Republican	1949	1955
25	L. Roy Houck	Republican	1955	1959
26	John F. Lindley	Democrat	1959	1961
27	Joseph H. Bottum	Republican	1961	1962
28	Nils Boe	Republican	1963	1965
29	Lem Overpeck	Republican	1965	1969
30	James Abdnor	Republican	1969	1971
31	William Dougherty	Democrat	1971	1975
32	Harvey L. Wollman	Democrat	1975	1978
33	Lowell C. Hansen II	Republican	1979	1987
34	Walter Dale Miller	Republican	1987	1993
35	Steve T. Kirby	Republican	1993	1995
36	Carole Hillard	Republican	1995	2003
37	Dennis Daugaard	Republican	2003	2011
38	Matt Michels	Republican	2011

Living former lieutenant governors

As of September 2015, four former lieutenant governors were alive, the oldest being Harvey L. Wollman (1975–1978, born 1935). The most recent death of a former lieutenant governor was that of Walter Dale Miller (1987–1993), on September 28, 2015. The most recent serving lieutenant governor to die was Carole Hillard (1995–2003), on October 25, 2007.

Lt. Governor	Lt. Gubernatorial term	Date of birth (and age)
Harvey L. Wollman	1975–1978	(1935-05-14) May 14, 1935
Lowell C. Hansen II	1979–1987	(1939-10-11) October 11, 1939
Steve T. Kirby	1993–1995	(1952-03-26) March 26, 1952
Dennis Daugaard	2003–2011	(1953-06-11) June 11, 1953

See also

• Governor of South Dakota
• South Dakota
• lieutenant governor (generally)