Richard Franklin Pettigrew

TRIUMPHANT
PLUTOCRACY

The Story of
American Public Life
from 1870 to 1920

By
Richard Franklin PETTIGREW
Formerly United States Senator
from South Dakota

He was a Mason.  He was Raised a Master Mason on August 18, 1873, in our Minnehaha Lodge No. 5 and was a member of that Lodge until October 05, 1922, when he took a Demit from that Lodge.  We do not have a picture but this is his masonic record that we have on file in our archives.

Sincerely :
Larry D. Carlson, P.M.
Executive Director
Grand Lodge of South Dakota

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January 1, 1922.
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PETTIGREW, Richard Franklin, 1848-1926

Senate Years of Service :  1889-1897 ;  1897-1901
Party :  Republican ;  Silver Republican

PETTIGREW, Richard Franklin, a Delegate from the Territory of Dakota and a Senator from South Dakota ;  born in Ludlow, Windsor County, Vt., July 23, 1848 ;  moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1854 ;  attended the public schools and Evansville Academy, Evansville, Wis.;  entered Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., in 1864 ;  spent one year teaching school and studying law in Iowa ;  entered the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1867 ;  went to Dakota in 1869 in the employ of a United States deputy surveyor ;  settled in Sioux Falls ;  was admitted to the bar about 1871 ;  practiced law, engaged in surveying and the real estate business ;  member, Territorial house of representatives 1872 ;  served in the Territorial council 1877, 1879 ;  elected as a Republican Delegate to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883) ;  unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress ;  member, Territorial council 1885 ;  upon the admission of South Dakota as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1889 ;  reelected in 1895 and served from November 2, 1889, to March 3, 1901 ;  left the Republican party on June 17, 1896 to join the Silver Republicans ;  unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1900 ;  chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses) ;  engaged in the practice of law in New York City ;  returned to Sioux Falls and was active in politics and business until his death in that city October 5, 1926 ;  interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.