U.S. Senate · Historical · South Dakota
Former U.S. Senators from South Dakota
Individuals who have served in the United States Senate and have since left office, grouped by the state they represented. The Senate seats two members from each state, each elected to a staggered six-year term across three classes (I, II, and III); the members below have completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or appointment to other office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former senator’s biography, the state and party they represented, their Senate Class, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, or open a state to see just that state’s former delegation. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a senator’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-senators hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
- Former U.S. SenatorAlfred KittredgeSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1901–1909
- Former U.S. SenatorChan GurneySouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1939–1951
- Former U.S. SenatorCoe CrawfordSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1909–1915
- Former U.S. SenatorEdwin JohnsonSouth DakotaDemocraticSenate Class III1915–1921
- Former U.S. SenatorFrancis CaseSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1951–1963
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge McGovernSouth DakotaDemocraticSenate Class III1963–1981
- Former U.S. SenatorGideon MoodySouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1889–1891
- Former U.S. SenatorGladys PyleSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1938–1939
- Former U.S. SenatorHarlan BushfieldSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class II1943–1948
- Former U.S. SenatorHerbert HitchcockSouth DakotaDemocraticSenate Class III1936–1939
- Former U.S. SenatorJames AbdnorSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1981–1987
- Former U.S. SenatorJames AbourezkSouth DakotaDemocraticSenate Class II1973–1979
- Former U.S. SenatorJames KyleSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1891–1901
- Former U.S. SenatorJoseph BottumSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1962–1963
- Former U.S. SenatorKarl MundtSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class II1948–1973
- Former U.S. SenatorLarry PresslerSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class II1979–1997
- Former U.S. SenatorPeter NorbeckSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class III1921–1937
- Former U.S. SenatorRichard PettigrewSouth DakotaSilver RepublicanSenate Class II1889–1901
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert GambleSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class II1901–1913
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas SterlingSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class II1913–1925
- Former U.S. SenatorTim JohnsonSouth DakotaDemocraticSenate Class II1997–2015
- Former U.S. SenatorTom DaschleSouth DakotaDemocraticSenate Class III1987–2005
- Former U.S. SenatorVera BushfieldSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class II1948–1948
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam BulowSouth DakotaDemocraticSenate Class II1931–1943
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam McMasterSouth DakotaRepublicanSenate Class II1925–1931