List of Speakers of the South Dakota House of Representatives
This is a comprehensive list of Speakers of the South Dakota House of Representatives since statehood in 1889. For information about the House of Representatives, see South Dakota House of Representatives Five South Dakota speakers have gone on to serve as governor.

List of Speakers of the South Dakota House of Representatives

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Table Section Text: This is a comprehensive list of Speakers of the South Dakota House of Representatives since statehood in 1889. For information about the House of Representatives, see South Dakota House of Representatives Five South Dakota speakers have gone on to serve as governor.

#	Speaker	Party	City	County	Term	Other Office	Term

1	Sutton E. Young	Republican	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1889–1890

2	Charles X. Seward	Watertown	Codington	1891–1892

3	James Marshall Lawson	Aberdeen	Brown	1893–1894	State Senator SD President Pro Tempore	1899–1906 1901–1902

4	Charles Tisdale Howard	Redfield	Spink	1895–1896

5	John Colvin	Populist	Mitchell	Davison	1897–1898

6	Albert G. Somers	Republican	Strouseton	Grant	1899–1902

7	John L. Browne	Aberdeen	Brown	1903–1906

8	Morris J. Chaney	Wakonda	Clay	1907–1910

9	Charles J. Morris	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1911–1912

10	Peter J. Tscharner	Lemmon	Perkins	1913–1914

11	Charles A. Christopherson	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1915–1916	U.S. Congressman	1919–1933

12	A.C. Roberts	Pierpont	Day	1917–1918

13	Lewis Benson	Flandreau	Moody	1919–1920

14	Christian O. Berdahl	Garretson	Minnehaha	1921–1922

15	Emmet Orville Frescoln	Winner	Tripp	1923–1924

16	Charles S. McDonald	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1925–1926

17	Ray F. Williamson	Aberdeen	Brown	1927–1928

18	Daniel K. Loucks	Watertown	Codington	1929–1930

19	B.W. McVeigh	Britton	Marshall	1931–1932

20	George Abild	Democratic	Pukwana	Brule	1933–1934

21	W. J. Eggert	Rockham	Faulk	1935–1936

22	A. C. Miller	Republican	Kennebec	Lyman	1937–1940	Lieutenant Governor	1941–1945

23	George T. Mickelson	Selby	Walworth	1941–1942	South Dakota Attorney General Governor	1943–1947 1947–1951

24	O.H. Hove	Colman	Moody	1943–1944

25	Anton Christian Halls	Garretson	Minnehaha	1945–1946

26	George Wininger Mills	Wall	Pennington	1947–1948

27	Arthur E. Munck	Pierre	Hughes	1949–1950

28	Hugh H. Stokes	Flandreau	Moody	1951–1952

29	Hobart H. Gates	Custer	Custer	1953–1954

30	Nils A. Boe	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1955–1958	Lieutenant Governor Governor	1963–1965 1965–1969

31	Archie M. Gubbrud	Alcester	Lincoln	1959–1960	Governor	1961–1965

32	Carl T. Burgess	Rapid City	Pennington	1961–1962

33	Paul E. Brown	Arlington	Kingsbury	1963–1964

34	Charles C. Droz	Miller	Hand	1965–1966

35	James D. Jelbert	Spearfish	Lawrence	1967–1968

36	Dexter H. Gunderson	Irene	Clay	1969–1970

37	Donald E. Osheim	Watertown	Codington	1971–1972

38	Gene N. Lebrun	Democratic	Rapid City	Pennington	1973–1974

39	Joseph H. Barnett	Republican	Aberdeen	Brown	1975–1976

40	Lowell C. Hansen II	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1977–1978	Lieutenant Governor	1979–1986

41	George S. Mickelson	Brookings	Brookings	1979–1980	Governor	1987–1993

42	Walter Dale Miller	New Underwood	Pennington	1981–1982	Lieutenant Governor Governor	1987–1993 1993–1994

43	Jerome B. Lammers	Madison	Lake	1983–1984

44	Donald J. Ham	Rapid City	Pennington	1985–1986

45	Debra R. Anderson	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	1987–1988

46	Royal J. 'Bud' Wood	Warner	Brown	1989–1990

47	E. James 'Jim' Hood	Spearfish	Lawrence	1991–1992

48	Steve K. Cutler	Claremont	Brown	1993–1994

49	Harvey C. Krautschun	Spearfish	Lawrence	1995–1996

50	Rexford A. 'Rex' Hagg	Rapid City	Pennington	1997–1998

51	Roger W. Hunt	Brandon	Minnehaha	1999–2000

52	Scott G. Eccarius	Rapid City	Pennington	2001–2002

53	Matthew J. W. Michels	Yankton	Yankton	2003–2006	Lieutenant Governor	2011–2019

54	Thomas J. Deadrick	Platte	Charles Mix	2007–2010

55	Valentine Rausch	Big Stone City	Grant	2011–2012

56	Brian Gosch	Rapid City	Pennington	2013–2014

57	Dean Wink	Howes	Meade	2015–2016

58	Mark Mickelson	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	2017–2019

59	Steven Haugaard	Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	2019–present

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Rausch was the Speaker, until 2012 for the South Dakota House of Representatives.

final_sentence: Rausch was the Speaker, until 2012 for the South Dakota House of Representatives.