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Senate Years of Service: 1962-1963 Party: Republican
BOTTUM, Joseph H., a Senator from South Dakota; born in Faulkton, Faulk County, S.Dak.,
August 7, 1903; attended the public schools of Faulkton; attended Yankton
College and the University of South Dakota 1920-1921; graduated from the law
school of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion in 1927; admitted to the
bar in 1927 and commenced the practice of law in St. Paul, Minn., in 1928;
states attorney at Faulkton 1932-1936; director of taxation for the State of
South Dakota 1937-1943; unsuccessful in seeking the Republican nomination for
Governor in 1942 and for Representative in 1950; lieutenant governor of South
Dakota 1960-1962; appointed on July 9, 1962, as a Republican to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis Case and
served from July 9, 1962, to January 3, 1963; unsuccessful candidate in 1962
for election to the vacancy; circuit judge of Seventh Judicial Circuit; was a
resident of Rapid City, S.Dak. until his death there on July 4, 1984; interment
in Pine Lawn Cemetery, Rapid City, S.Dak.
BibliographyClem, Alan.
The Nomination of Joe Bottum: Analysis of a Committee Decision to
Nominate a United States Senator. Vermillion: Governmental Research
Bureau, University of South Dakota, 1963. Pressler, Larry. Joseph H. Bottum.
In
U.S. Senators from the Prairie, pp. 150-52. Vermillion, SD:
Dakota Press, 1982.
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