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Senate Years of Service: 1962-1963 Party: Republican
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BOTTUM, Joseph H., a Senator from South Dakota; born in Faulkton, Faulk County, S.Dak., August 7,
1903; attended the public schools of Faulkton; attended Yankton College and the University of South
Dakota 1920-1921; graduated from the law school of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion in
1927; admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced the practice of law in St. Paul, Minn., in 1928;
states attorney at Faulkton 1932-1936; director of taxation for the State of South Dakota 1937-1943;
unsuccessful in seeking the Republican nomination for Governor in 1942 and for Representative in
1950; lieutenant governor of South Dakota 1960-1962; appointed on July 9, 1962, as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis Case and served until
January 3, 1963; unsuccessful candidate in 1962 for election to the vacancy; circuit judge of Seventh
Judicial Circuit; was a resident of Rapid City, S.Dak. until his death there on July 4, 1984; interment in
Pine Lawn Cemetery, Rapid City, S.Dak.
BibliographyClem, Alan. The Nomination of Joe Bottum:
Analysis of a Committee Decision to Nominate a United States Senator. Vermillion:
Governmental Research Bureau, University of South Dakota, 1963. Pressler, Larry. Joseph H.
Bottum. In U.S. Senators from the Prairie, pp. 150-52. Vermillion, SD: Dakota
Press, 1982.
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