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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Clay County, S.Dak.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/03-22.html">March 22, 1884</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a> 1st District, 1927-30; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a> 1st District, 1931-38. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/index.html">1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Interment at Rockfield Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/53110578">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms02033">Bluff View Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Vermillion, Clay County, South Dakota <br> Founded 1882<br> See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=96824&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Andrew Ericson Lee (1847-1934)</b> — also known as <b>Andrew E. Lee</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak. Born near Bergen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/03-18.html">March 18, 1847</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Dakota</a>, 1897-1901; defeated (Democratic), 1908; candidate for Presidential Elector for South Dakota. Died in Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-died.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/03-19.html">March 19, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 1 days</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Erick A. Lee and Augusta (Johnson) Lee; brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burgess.html#646.60.28">Lyman Burgess</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gunderson.html#855.64.53">Hans Gunderson</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/">1872</a> to Annie M. Chappell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/06-01.html">June 1, 1920</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee6.html#503.06.98">Myrtle Shepard Lee</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gunderson.html#381.74.84">Carl Gunderson</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11632.html">Lee-Gunderson family</a> of Vermillion, South Dakota.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/andrew-ericson-lee/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11210420">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carl Gunderson (1864-1933)</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak.; Mitchell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/DA-lived.html">Davison County</a>, S.Dak. Born near Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-born.html">Clay County</a>, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/06-20.html">June 20, 1864</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/surveyor.html">surveyor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a> 2nd District, 1893-94, 1897-1902, 1917-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/snpr.html">President pro tempore of the South Dakota State Senate</a>, 1899-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota</a>, 1921-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Dakota</a>, 1925-27; defeated, 1926; candidate in inconclusive primary 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died in Mitchell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/DA-died.html">Davison County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/02-26.html">February 26, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 251 days</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gunderson.html#855.64.53">Hans Gunderson</a> and Isabel Johnson (Lee) Gunderson; married to Gertrude Bertlesen; nephew by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burgess.html#646.60.28">Lyman Burgess</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#671.42.39">Andrew Ericson Lee</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11632.html">Lee-Gunderson family</a> of Vermillion, South Dakota.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/carl-gunderson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11210502">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Lawlor Jolley (1840-1926)</b> — also known as <b>John L. Jolley</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak. Born in Montreal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-born.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/07-14.html">July 14, 1840</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trhs.html">Dakota territorial House of Representatives</a>, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention from Dakota Territory Territory, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/DK.html">1868</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/DK.html">1884</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trcn.html">member Dakota territorial council</a>, 1874-76, 1881-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trcp.html">President of the Dakota Territorial Council</a>, 1874-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/vermillion.html">mayor of Vermillion, S.Dak.</a>, 1877; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a> 2nd District, 1889-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Dakota</a> at-large, 1891-93. Died in Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-died.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/12-14.html">December 14, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 153 days</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Harriet J. Grange.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000203">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406098">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7180880">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tbgGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA236"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/633/32.61.jpg" width=70 height=91 border=0 alt="M. J. Chaney"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Morris J. Chaney (1858-1940)</b> — of Newell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/BV-lived.html">Buena Vista County</a>, Iowa; Wakonda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak. Born in White Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/OG-born.html">Ogle County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/10-01.html">October 1, 1858</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a> 2nd District, 1903-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the South Dakota State House of Representatives</a>, 1905-10. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Died in Palm Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PB-died.html">Palm Beach County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/02-08.html">February 8, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 130 days</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Osborn Chaney and Amanda (Rice) Chaney; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/">1886</a> to Helen McFarline.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/62281167">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> South Dakota Legislative Manual, 1903</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Horace J. Austin (1837-1891)</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/07-11.html">July 11, 1837</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/surveyor.html">Surveyor</a>; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trhs.html">Dakota territorial House of Representatives</a>, 1865-67; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trcn.html">member Dakota territorial council</a>, 1867-69, 1874-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trcp.html">President of the Dakota Territorial Council</a>, 1867-68; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a> 2nd District, 1891; died in office 1891. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-died.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/02-27.html">February 27, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 231 days</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/03-21.html">March 21, 1870</a>, to Rachel Ross.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61128334">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Aaron A. Carpenter (1826-1914)</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.). Born in Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/07-07.html">July 7, 1826</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trcn.html">Member Dakota territorial council</a>, 1867-69. Died in Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-died.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/02-22.html">February 22, 1914</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 230 days</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>A. B. Gunderson</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a> 2nd District, 1927-30; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from South Dakota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/SD.html">1932</a>. Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Hans Gunderson (1832-1913)</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.). Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/index.html">1832</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trcn.html">Member Dakota territorial council</a>, 1877-78. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-died.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/09-20.html">September 20, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">about 81 years</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#671.42.39">Andrew Ericson Lee</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gunderson.html#381.74.84">Carl Gunderson</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11632.html">Lee-Gunderson family</a> of Vermillion, South Dakota.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61102109">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Myrtle Shepard Lee (1874-1948)</b> — also known as <b>Myrtle Sophia Shepard</b>; <b>Mrs. Andrew E. Lee</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/03-13.html">March 13, 1874</a>. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Dakota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/SD.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-died.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/12-31.html">December 31, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 293 days</a>). Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Luther David Shepard and Margaret Jane (Dykins) Shepard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/06-01.html">June 1, 1920</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#671.42.39">Andrew Ericson Lee</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11632.html">Lee-Gunderson family</a> of Vermillion, South Dakota.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/71195720">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lyman Burgess</b> — of Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.). Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trhs.html">Dakota territorial House of Representatives</a>, 1862. Interment at Bluff View Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#671.42.39">Andrew Ericson Lee</a>; uncle by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gunderson.html#381.74.84">Carl Gunderson</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11632.html">Lee-Gunderson family</a> of Vermillion, South Dakota.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms04990">Union Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Wakonda, Clay County, South Dakota <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Donald McMurchie (1896-1981)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-born.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/10-02.html">October 2, 1896</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota</a>, 1937-41. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died in Sioux Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-died.html">Minnehaha County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/11-20.html">November 20, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 49 days</a>). 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