Bill Janklow Quotes
We have taxes so we can educate our kids, take care of our elderly.
William Janklow, U. S. Congressman (Republican, SD), Governor of South Dakota (Republican), PBS News Hour, December 27, 1999
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William John Janklow was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota: sixteen years in office. Janklow had the third-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,851 days.
