John Harlan Bushfield Biography


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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; was 
graduated from the Minnesota Univ(rsity Law School at Minneapolis in 1904; 
was 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.