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Senate Years of Service: 1938-1939 Party: Republican
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PYLE, 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.
BibliographyKinyon, 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.
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