Louis Kussuth Church Biography

	This biography appears on page 735 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	LOUIS KUSSUTH CHURCH, ninth territorial governor, was born in New 
York in 1850. He served in the New York legislature in 1883 when 
President Cleveland was governor. He was appointed by Cleveland 
associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota in 1885 and two years 
later was promoted by the President to the governorship. He was removed 
by Harrison promptly at the beginning of his administration and shortly 
afterward removed to Seattle, where he engaged in the practice of law. 
In 1898 he made a trip to Alaska in the interest of some clients and 
was attacked by pneumonia and died.