Peter Norbeck Biography


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NORBECK, Peter, a Senator from  South Dakota; born near Vermillion, Clay 
County, Dakota (now South Dakota), August 27,1870; attended the public 
schools and the University of South Dakota at Vermillion; moved to 
Bloomington, Charles Mix County, S. Dak., in 1886 and to Redfield, Spink 
County, S. Dak., in 1900; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in l895 
also engaged as a contractor and driller of deep water, oil, and gas wells; 
member of the state senate 1909-1915; served as Lieutenant Governor in 
1915 and 1916 and as Governor of South Dakota 1917-1921; delegate to all 
the Republican National Conventions from 1916 to 1932; was instrumental in 
the establishment of the Rushmore National Monument and was a member of the 
Rushmore Commission from its inception; elected as a Republican to the United 
States Senate in 1920; reelected in 1926 and again in 1932 and served from 
March 4,1921, until his death in Redfield, S. Dak., December 20, 1936; 
interment in Bloomington Cemetery, near Platte, S. Dak.