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Affiliation | Republican |
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1990-01-01 |
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Name | William J. "Bill" Janklow |
Address | Pierre, South Dakota , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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September 13, 1939
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Died | January 12, 2012
(72 years)
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Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
Last Modifed | RBH May 25, 2016 04:25pm |
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Info | Janklow was born in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1956 to 1959. He graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1964 and received a law degree in 1966. Though controversial, Janklow is among the most successful politicians in South Dakota's history. He was elected to statewide office six times, each time a wide margin.
Janklow served as South Dakota's attorney general from 1975-1979. Janklow was first elected governor in 1978, and he was easily reelected in 1982 with 70.9% of the vote, the highest percentage ever won by a gubernatorial candidate in the state's history. Barred from running again in 1986, Janklow unsuccessfully challenged incumbent U.S. Senator James Abdnor in the Republican primary. Janklow returned to politics in 1994, when he defeated incumbent Walter Dale Miller in the Republican gubernatorial primary. He was handily elected that year and was reelected in 1998. Janklow is the longest-serving governor in South Dakota history; he is the only person in the state's history to serve eight full years as governor, which he did twice.
In 2002, Janklow ran for the Republican nomination for South Dakota's only House seat. He defeated Democrat Stephanie Herseth, an attorney and granddaughter of former governor Ralph Herseth, in a very close race; some speculated that had anyone other than Janklow been the Republican nominee, Herseth would have won.
On May 27, 2004, the pardons that Jankow granted during his governorship were released. Jankow had pardoned his son-in-law, William Gordon Haugen II, who was convicted of DUIs in 1983 and 1997 and marijuana possession in 1993.
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