Bill Janklow
| Bill Janklow | |
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| 27th and 30th Governor of South Dakota | |
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In office January 7, 1995 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Lieutenant | Carole Hillard |
| Preceded by | Walter Dale Miller |
| Succeeded by | Mike Rounds |
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In office January 1, 1979 – January 6, 1987 |
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| Lieutenant | Lowell Hansen |
| Preceded by | Harvey Wollman |
| Succeeded by | George S. Mickelson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Dakota's At-large district |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 20, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | John Thune |
| Succeeded by | Stephanie Herseth Sandlin |
| 25th Attorney General of South Dakota | |
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In office January 3, 1975 – January 1, 1979 |
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| Governor |
Richard Kneip Harvey Wollman |
| Preceded by | Kermit Sande |
| Succeeded by | Mark Meierhenry |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
William John Janklow September 13, 1939 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 12, 2012 (aged 72) Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S. |
| Resting place | Sturgis, South Dakota |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Dean Thom |
| Alma mater | University of South Dakota (B.S., J.D.) |
| Profession | attorney |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Marine Corps |
| Years of service | 1956–1959 |
William John "Bill" Janklow (September 13, 1939 – January 12, 2012) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota - sixteen years in office. Janklow has the second longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,851 days.
Janklow served as the 25th Attorney General of South Dakota from 1975 to 1979 before serving as the state's 27th Governor from 1979 to 1987 and then the 30th Governor from 1995 to 2003. Janklow was then elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served for a little more than a year. He resigned in 2004 after being convicted of manslaughter for his culpability in a fatal automobile accident.
Janklow was born in Chicago, Illinois. When Janklow was 10 years old his father died of a heart attack while working as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. His mother moved the family back to the United States, and in 1954 when Janklow was 15, they settled in her home town of Flandreau, South Dakota. Following a series of scrapes with the law, Janklow was ordered by a judge to either join the military or attend reform school. Janklow dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Marine Corps, serving from 1956 to 1959. He graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1964 with a BS in business administration and then went on to earn a J.D. at the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1966. After graduation from law school, he was a Legal Services lawyer for six years on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, advancing to direct the program there.
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