Dennis Daugaard
Dennis Martin Daugaard is an American politician who has been the 32nd Governor of South Dakota since January 2011. Upon winning the 2010 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Daugaard became the first CODA governor in South Dakota history and the history of the United States.
Daugaard was born and raised on a family farm near Garretson, South Dakota, the son of Florence Margaret and Raymond Victor Daugaard. His parents were both deaf. His fathers family descends from immigrants from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. While growing up, sign language was the main method of communication in his home. Daugaard went to a oneroom country school as a child but then attended high school, in which he played the French horn, in the city of Dell Rapids and graduated in 1971.
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