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This week in South Dakota history: March 20-26

Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson. (Wikimedia)

On this day 100 years ago, South Dakota became the only state in the nation to prefer presidential candidate Hiram Johnson over Calvin Coolidge in the GOP’s 1924 primary election.

Endorsed by U.S. Sen. Peter Norbeck, Johnson was a senator at the time and the former governor of California, credited for helping form the Progressive Party in the early 1900s. He had also been Theodore Roosevelt’s running mate in 1912 — the Rough Rider lieutenant colonial’s only unsuccessful run for the presidency.

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