Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – Missouri River; Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973; South Dakota. Governor (1955-1959: Foss); South Dakota. Governor (1943-1947: Sharpe); Hammond, Colonel D.G.; United States. Army. Corps of...
15,000 people attended a ceremony celebrating the dam closure. Speakers included Winthrop Rockefeller; Governor Joe Foss, and former Governor M. Q. Sharpe.
Fort Sisseton (S.D.); South Dakota. Governor (1943-1947: Sharpe); United States. Army; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Fort Sisseton was leased to the U.S. Army. The adjoining acres will be used as a gunnery range. Governor Sharpe also expected to sign an authorization for the relocation of American-Japanese in South Dakota.
Missouri River; Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); South Dakota. Governor (1943-1947: Sharpe); Case, Francis H. (Francis Higbee), 1896-1962
Representative Francis Case presented the statement of Governor M.Q. Sharpe concerning the future of the Missouri Valley from the American Planning and Civic Association Citizens Conference on Planning.