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Governor
Arthur Calvin Mellette
Years in Office:
Territorial Governor: March 11, 1889 – October 1, 1889
Governor of South Dakota: 1889-1893
Birth: June 25, 1842; Henry
County,
Indiana
Death: May 25, 1896; Pittsburg,
Kansas
Governor Arthur Calvin Mellette was an
attorney, landowner, businessman, and newspaperman. He was the governor of
Dakota Territory for several months in 1889. He then became the first Governor
of South Dakota. He was reelected as Governor in 1890 and served until 1893.
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Classification Number:
1/11/1
Accession Number: 88-18
Collection: Governor Arthur C
Mellette
Series Title & Inclusive
Dates: Thanksgiving Day
Proclamation, 1889.
Shelf Location: Box 2324A |
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Accession Number:
H74-188
Collection: Arthur Calvin
Mellette Papers
Series Title & Inclusive Dates:
Governor's Series, 1889-1892. Included is a typescript copy of Mellette’s
Civil War Diary, correspondence, materials relating to South Dakota’s
attainment of statehood, proclamations, manuscripts, speeches, as well as
information on Mellette’s wife, Maggie.
Shelf Location:
Boxes 3524B
- 3528B; MF 4289-4293 |
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Accession Number:
H93-89
Collection: Arthur Calvin
Mellette Papers
Series Title & Inclusive Dates:
Jonothon Brock Play House Program, 1888.
Shelf Location: Box 5718B |
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Accession Number:
H94-41
Collection: Mellette Family
Papers
Series Title & Inclusive Dates:
Correspondence, Photographs & Miscellaneous Material, 1862-1930. Included
on one 35mm microfilm roll is Mellette family correspondence, political
ephemera, information relating to Samuel Elrod, scrapbooks, Arthur C.
Mellette’s civil war correspondence, as well as the Mellette family Bible.
Series Location: MF 3506 |
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Accession Number:
96-331
Collection: Dakota Territory,
Office of the Governor, Inaugural Addresses
Series Title & Inclusive Dates:
Report of the Governor of Dakota to the Secretary of the Interior, 1889.
Shelf Location: 7136A |
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Accession Number:
96-332
Collection: Governor, Inaugural
Addresses
Series Title & Inclusive Dates:
Message of the Governor of South Dakota Delivered to the Legislature January
1890-1893.
Shelf Location: 7136A |
Accession Number:
2004-057
Collection:
Governor Arthur Mellette
Series
Title & Inclusive Dates: Mellette Family Papers, 1898-1935
Shelf
Location: 8755A |
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