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Senate Years of Service: 1921-1936 Party: Republican
NORBECK, Peter, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Vermillion, Clay County, Dakota Territory
(now South Dakota), August 27, 1870; attended the public schools and the University of South
Dakota at Vermillion; moved to Redfield, Spink County, S.Dak., in 1900; engaged in agricultural
pursuits and in 1895 also engaged as a contractor and driller of deep water, oil, and gas wells;
member, State senate 1909-1915; lieutenant governor 1915-1916; Governor of South Dakota
1917-1921; was instrumental in the establishment of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920; reelected in 1926 and 1932 and served
from March 4, 1921, until his death; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Sixty-ninth Congress),
Committee on Banking and Currency (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses); died in
Redfield, S.Dak., December 20, 1936; interment in Bloomington Church Cemetery, near Platte,
S.Dak.
Bibliography American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Fite, Gilbert. Peter Norbeck: Prairie
Statesman. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1948; Norbeck, Lydia. Recollections of
the Years. Edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal. South Dakota Historical Collections
39 (1978): 1-147.
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