Project Timeline
The following is a tentative timeline for the Trail of Governors project. Please note that some sculptures may be moved forward in the schedule if funding is secured.
Republican
Democrat
Populist
The Trail of Governors Foundation will honor a minimum of three governors each year. The order in which they are sculpted includes an early governor, a recent governor and one from the middle. The first year’s statues will include an early governor (Mellette) and a recent governor to leave office (Miller), as well as a mid-timeline governor (Bushfield).
Collectively, artists can sculpt up to six statues per year. If total funding is secured for a sculpture before its scheduled year, all efforts will be made to ensure it is added to the current year’s list of governors. The following is the current timeline.
Please click a governor’s name to learn more.
2017
Tom Berry, 14th
Leslie Jensen, 15th
Sigurd Anderson, 19th
Joe J. Foss, 20th
2018
William H. McMaster, 10th
Merrell Q. Sharpe, 17th
Ralph E. Herseth, 21st
2019
Samuel H. Elrod, 5th
Archie Gubbrud, 22nd
Dennis Daugaard, 32nd
2021
Coe Crawford, 6th
Charles H. Sheldon, 2nd
Carl Gunderson, 11th
2022
Andrew E. Lee, 3rd
Frank M. Byrne, 8th
William J. Bulow, 12th
202?
Kristi Noem, 33rd Scheduled for 202? (End of term)
Information on this page courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society Department of Tourism.
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Donated to Date:
$2,411,839.12
updated 9/6/2023
Endowment Balance:
$117,172.42
updated 9/6/2023