Samuel H. Elrod

Samuel Harrison Elrod (May 1, 1856 – July 13, 1935) was an American attorney and the fifth Governor of South Dakota.[2] Elrod moved to Clark, Dakota Territory and practiced law, was a real estate broker, and a farmer.He served as a member of the Sioux Falls Constitutional Convention in 1883, as Clark County (Dakota Territory) Attorney in 1884, as Clerk Postmaster from 1885 to 1887, as State Attorney from 1887 to 1897, and as U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Disbursing Agent to Sisseton and Wahpeton tribes from 1892 until 1900.He continued the policies of his predecessor-Charles Herreid-controlling political party machinery in South Dakota.Elrod died July 13, 1935, and is interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, Clark, South Dakota.
Governor Elrod's house in Clark, South Dakota
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