SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Goring death costs South Dakota Democrats 1924 governor's race
This week in South Dakota history: Aug 9-15
A ranching accident 100 years ago this week in southeast South Dakota changed the course of state politics.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate and three—time state Sen. Andrew S. Anderson fell victim to a goring death by a bull while tending cattle on his Union County farm on Aug. 11, 1924, according to The Deadwood Telegram.
The candidate’s death sent shockwaves through South Dakota’s political arena. U.S.G. Cherry, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, commented on the well-liked farmer’s death,
“Only last Thursday evening at the dinner given in his honor by the leaders of his party in Clay County, I sat beside him, and we planned a trip to the Black Hills. On the morning following the Vermillion dinner, I passed by his splendid home at Alsen… and in his farm clothes, he was sitting on a bench in front of one of his many fine farm buildings. He was in the prime of life.”
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