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Senate Years of Service: 1943-1948 Party: Republican
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BUSHFIELD, Harlan John, (husband of Vera C. Bushfield),
a Senator from South Dakota; born in Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa, August 6,
1882; moved with his parents to South Dakota in 1883; attended the public schools in Miller,
S.Dak., and Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak. 1899-1901; graduated from the
Minnesota University Law School at Minneapolis in 1904; admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Miller, S.Dak.; Governor of South Dakota 1939-1942; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 and served from January 3, 1943, until his death in
Miller, S.Dak., September 27, 1948; interment in the G.A.R. Cemetery.
BibliographyU.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Harlan
John Bushfield. 81st Cong., 2nd sess., 1948. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1950; Pressler, Larry. Harlan J. Bushfield. In U.S. Senators from the Prairie, pp.
124-28. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982.
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