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Senate Years of Service: 1936-1938 Party: Democrat
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HITCHCOCK, Herbert Emery, a Senator from South Dakota; born in Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, August
22, 1867; attended public schools in Iowa and San Jose, Calif., a business college at Davenport,
Iowa, Iowa State College at Ames, and the University of Chicago Law School; moved to Mitchell,
S.Dak, in 1884, attended school and worked as a stenographer; admitted to the South Dakota bar in
1896 and commenced practice in Mitchell; also engaged in banking; clerk of the State senate 1896;
elected as a States attorney 1904 and 1906; elected to the State senate in 1909, 1911, and 1929; a
trustee of Yankton (S.Dak.) College in 1936; president of Mitchell school board 1924-1934;
appointed on December 29, 1936, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Peter Norbeck and served from December 29, 1936, to November 8, 1938,
when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for the nomination to fill the vacancy in 1938;
resumed the practice of law until his death in Mitchell, S.Dak., February 17, 1958; interment in
Graceland Cemetery.
BibliographyPressler, Larry. Herbert Hitchcock. In U.S.
Senators from the Prairie, pp. 107-11. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982.
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