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- Peter Norbeck
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- August 27, 1870
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- Virgo
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- 🇺🇸 United States
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- Politician
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Biography
Peter Norbeck is 155 years old, a politician, from United States.
Peter Norbeck (August 27, 1870 – December 20, 1936) was an American politician from South Dakota. After serving two terms as the ninth governor of South Dakota, he was elected to three consecutive terms as a United States senator. Norbeck was the first native-born governor of South Dakota to serve in office, and the first native-born U.S. senator from South Dakota (he was born in the portion of the Dakota Territory that would later become the state of South Dakota).
He is best remembered as "Mount Rushmore's great political patron", for promoting the construction of the giant sculpture at Mount Rushmore and securing federal funding for it.
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