Hyatt E. Covey
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Hyatt E. Covey (September 1, 1875 – August 3, 1968) was 15th Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota from 1927 to 1929. He was a member of the Republican Party and served with a Democratic Party governor, William J. Bulow. He was from Hamill, South Dakota.
Biography
He was born at LeRoy, Illinois, and attended normal school at Normal, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Chicago, with an A. B. degree in 1901, and became principal of the Montevideo, Minnesota, high school before homesteading in Tripp County, South Dakota in 1912. He commenced farming and stock raising and served in the state senate of the South Dakota Legislature, being elected in 1918, 1920, 1922, and 1924. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1926.South Dakota Manual, 1927, p. 237 He died in Tripp County.Biographical Directory of the South Dakota Legislature, 1889-1989 (1989), p. 215.
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Category:Lieutenant governors of South Dakota
Category:People from McLean County, Illinois
Category:South Dakota state senators
Category:University of Chicago alumni
Category:People from Tripp County, South Dakota
Category:20th-century members of the South Dakota Legislature