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SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Senator remembered for taking homesteaders’ interests to D.C.
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SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Senator remembered for taking homesteaders’ interests to D.C.

This week is South Dakota history: Sept. 20-26

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Former United States Sen. Robert J. Gamble died in his Sioux Falls home 100 years ago this week.

Born in New York, Gamble moved with his family to Wisconsin at the age of 11 where he would later go to college and study the law while working in a Milwaukee firm. In 1875, Gamble moved to what was then the territory of Dakota, starting a law practice with his brother, John R. Gamble. According to the Kimball Enterprise, the firm would go on to become one of the most successful in the early days of statehood, the future senator taking full control of the business following his brother’s death in 1891.

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