Herbert E. Hitchcock

Herbert Emery Hitchcock ( born August 22, 1867 in Maquoketa, Iowa, † February 17, 1958 in Mitchell, South Dakota ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of South Dakota in the U.S. Senate.

Herbert Hitchcock attended the public schools in Iowa and San Jose, California, and a commercial school in Davenport. He then continued his education at the Iowa State College at Ames and at the Law School of the University of Chicago continued. In 1884 he moved to Mitchell in South Dakota, where he worked as a stenographer; In 1896 he was admitted to the bar association of the state and began to practice in Mitchell. He also was active in banking.

In 1896, he joined as Secretary ( Clerk ) of the Senate of South Dakota for the first time in state services. 1904 and 1906 he was selected in each case to the prosecutor; in the years 1909, 1911 and 1929, he completed one term as a state senator. In addition, he served from 1924 to 1934 as president of the school board of Mitchell and 1936 as curator of Yankton College.

On December 29, 1936 Hitchcock was appointed successor to the late Peter Norbeck in the U.S. Senate in Washington. He would also compete for election, but was defeated in the Democratic primary to former Governor Tom Berry. This, in turn, later lost against the Republican Gladys Pyle.

Herbert Hitchcock worked after his time in the Senate again as a lawyer in Mitchell, where he died in 1958.