Andrew J. Faulk Biography


	This biography appears on page 876 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ANDREW J. FAULK, third territorial governor of Dakota, born at 
Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1814, while his 
father, John Faulk, was absent in the war of 1812, Came to Dakota in 
1861 and was appointed governor by President Johnson in 1866, serving 
four years. He spent the remainder of his life in Yankton, where he 
died on September 5.