Governor Arthur Calvin Mellette
Territorial Governor: March 11, 1889 – October 1, 1889
Birth: June 23, 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.

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

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

Accession Number: H93-89
Collection:
Arthur Calvin Mellette Papers
Series Title & Inclusive Dates: Jonothon Brock Play House Program, 1888.
Shelf Location:
Box 5718B

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.
Shelf Location: MF 3506

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

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

Collection: Dakota Territorial Records
Series Title & Inclusive Dates:
Governor Arthur C. Mellette Proclamations, Applications and Petitions for Pardons, and letters sent, 1889.
Shelf Location: MF 1342-1344, roll 39-41
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