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- circa 1961-1971
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Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
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Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers
Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
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Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel in his Washington, D.C. office
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Representative Ben Reifel talking on a phone in his Washington. D.C. office
Representative Ben Reifel on the capitol steps in Washington, D.C.
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Former Representative Ben Reifel standing on the steps leading to the capitol building in Washington, D.C.
Representative Ben Reifel in Washington, D.C.
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Representative Ben Reifel walking down a Washington D.C. street carrying a briefcase
Representative Ben Reifel in National Statuary Hall in US Capitol Building
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Representative Ben Reifel in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C.
Representative Ben Reifel in National Statuary Hall in US Capitol Building
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Representative Ben Reifel in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C.
Representative Ben Reifel recording dictation in his office
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Representative Ben Reifel sitting at his Washington D.C. desk speaking into a dictating machine
Representative Ben Reifel at Chief Jack House's summer dwelling in 1971
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Representative Ben Reifel standing by the entrance to Chief Jack House's summer dwelling in Colorado, Chief Jack was the last chief of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe
Representative Ben Reifel with Boys Scouts leaders in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1964
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Representative Ben Reifel with Boys Scouts leaders at the Episcopal Church in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1964
Representative Ben Reifel with Girl Scouts from Springfield, Virginia
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Representative Ben Reifel showing Springfield, Virginia Girl Scouts, Debbie Bowers and Linda Black, Native American artifacts, Reifel is holding a peace pipe and the girls are wearing headdresses
Representative Ben Reifel and his wife Alice Reifel with Joe and Nellie Bottum
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Representative Ben Reifel and his wife Alice Reifel with Joe and Nellie Bottum, who were are of Reifel's campaign in 1962
Ben Reifel at the Twin Buttes School dedication in 1959
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Bureau of Indian Affairs area director at the dedication of the Twin Buttes School 12 miles north-northwest of Halliday, North Dakota, with him are Ernest Magnuson, principal of the Sac and Fox Day School in Tama, Iowa, Owen Morken, superintendent at Ft. Berthold Agency, John Star and Knute Lee, directors of schools
Ben Reifel at the South Dakota Tuberculosis and Health Association annual meeting in 1956
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South Dakota Tuberculosis and Health Association annual meeting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Standing left to right: Ben Reifel, Ray Jonz, and two unidentified men; Front row left to right: Dr. Mary Walton, Phoebe Downing, Marian Paints, Mrs. Alfred Janis
Ben Reifel and Tom Kleppe in 1976
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Ben Reifel, former representative from South Dakota, speaks with North Dakota Representative Tom Kleppe and another man, the photograph is signed to Ben Reifel from Tom Kleppe
Ben and Frances Reifel with Virginia Smith at a Daughters of the American Revolution meeting in 1987
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Ben Reifel standing between his wife, Frances, and Virginia Smith after Reifel gave a talk to the Clearwater Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting
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People standing on a dock waiting to board a charter fishing boat
Ben Reifel birthday party in 1962
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Alice Reifel with several other women during a birthday party for Representative Ben Reifel
Representative Ben Reifel in the Black Hills of South Dakota
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Representative Ben Reifel talking with a constituent in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they are outside standing by a truck
Representative Ben Reifel and Al Gustafson in 1962
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Representative Ben Reifel is with his wife, Alice Reifel, and Al Gustafson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel at an event
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Representative Ben Reifel seated at a table with others eating a meal during an event
Honoring American Indian code talkers
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Ceremony honoring two American Indian code talkers
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Representative Ben Reifel and Senator Karl Mundt standing behind vice president candidate William Miller at a podium at a Republican campaign rally in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
William Miller at Joe Foss Field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1964
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Vice presidential candidate William Miller walking next to a man on the airstrip at Joe Foss field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Senator Karl Mundt with Louise Humphrey
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South Dakota Senator Karl Mundt speaking with Louise Humphrey at an event
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Representative Charles Goodell (R-NY), Representative Ben Reifel, and Admiral Ben Moreell, director of the Americans for Constitutional Action, talk at the conservative awards
Alice Reifel campaigns for her husband, Ben Reifel, in 1960
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Alice Reifel is with two other women, each are holding a doll, during Ben Reifel's 1960 campaign
Congressional wives with former President Eisenhower in 1962
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Mrs. Peter (Nancy) Dominick, Mrs. T. Nygaard, Mrs. Ben (Alice) Reifel, and unidentified woman, former President Eisenhower, and Evelyn ?
Young Republicans from Northern State Teachers College in 1963
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Young Republicans from Northern State Teachers College; Bob England, Lloyd Duncan, Bill Walker, Sue Walker, Gary Kulm
William Scranton and Bill Johnson
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William Scranton, Republican U.S. House of Representatives candidate from Pennsylvania is speaking with Bill Johnson
Indian Society seminar in Spearfish, South Dakota in 1984
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Former Representative Ben Reifel at a Indian Society seminar at Black Hills State College in Spearfish, South Dakota
Indian Council Fire Achievement Award Ceremony in 1971
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Dr. Ned A. Hatathli, President of Navajo Community College, received the 1971 Indian Council Fire achievement award from Ben Reifel; from left to right: Dr. Ned A. Hatathli; Louis R. Bruce, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Ben Reifel, director, Office of Indian Programs, National Parks Service; Elmer Bennett, Arrow Inc.
South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion
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South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion; from let to right; row 1: Garrett Holleman, Frances O'Connell, James Etteldorf, Jennie Bang VanDenBerg. Nina Mae Cranston Garthune; Row 2: Ben Reifel, Wesley Neufeld, Eli Ferguson, Ken Schoenwether, Marjorie White Ashbaugh, Adeline Dahl Muehlbeier, Charlotte Christie Jones, Paul Jones; Row 3: Vivian Swenson Strand, Otis Dahl, Merwin B. Wheeler, Liguri Gannon, Donald Craig, Fred Frame; Row 4: Ozzie Stockland, William Garthune, Everard Opsal, Herman Stallbaum, Millard MacComb, Don Pier
Ben Reifel on the campaign trail in 1960
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Ben Reifel talking with people in a place of business during his campaign for Congress
Ben Reifel on the campaign trail in Ipswich, South Dakota in 1960
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Ben Reifel talking to a business man in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress
Representative Ben Reifel with Representative Mike Kirwan
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Representative Ben Reifel with Representative Mike Kirwan, a Democrat from Ohio
Representative Mike Kirwan wearing an American Indian headdress
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Representative Mike Kirwan, a Democrat from Ohio, is having an American Indian headdress places on his head by an unknown American Indian man
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Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, talk with the parents of the Fischer quintuplets born in Aberdeen, South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel at the Committee on Agriculture in 1962
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Representative Ben Reifel is with A.E. Crooks of Frankfurt, South Dakota, and Dan Nohr of Yankton, South Dakota waiting to testify before the Committee on Agriculture in Washington, D.C.
Alice Reifel at an event in Washington, D.C. in 1962
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Alice Reifel is with other women at an event in Washington, D.C.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey shakes hands with people
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United State Vice President Hubert Humphrey shakes hand with three men
President Eisenhower speaking at an event
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President Dwight Eisenhower is speaking at an event, there are men holding microphones in front of him
Holy Rosary Mission in Pine Ridge, South Dakota
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Bureau of Indian Affairs officials visit the Holy Rosary Mission in Pine Ridge, South Dakota; from the right: (second) Superintendent Towle; (third) Commissioner Emmons; (fourth) Rev. Lawrence Edwards, S.J., Superior of Holy Rosary Mission; From the Left (fourth) Rev. John Bryde, S.J. , principal of Holy Rosary Mission; (fifth) Ben Reifel, Aberdeen Area Director; (sixth) Representative Ely. Berry; (seventh) Assistant Commissioner Rex Lee
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Representative Ben Reifel meets with VFW representatives from South Dakota, R.W. Hodson, Martin, and Bob Whittemore, Watertown who were raising money for the Battleship USS South Dakota Memorial
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Representative Ben Reifel standing next to the South Dakota Cherry Blossom Princess Judy Sorenson from Flandreau, South Dakota who is shaking hands with Don White, President of the South Dakota State Society from Pierre, South Dakota in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office
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Representative Ben Reifel and Senator Karl Mundt at a reception for South Dakota's best Homemaker of Tomorrow Ruth Krueger left to rights: Margaret McBride, Ben Reifel, Ruth Krueger, Karl Mundt
Sisseton, South Dakota High School groundbreaking in 1968
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Representative Ben Reifel (second from left) is among other at the groundbreaking for a new high school in Sisseton, South Dakota
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Representative Ben Reifel, Don Schweiger, president of the Greater South Dakota Association, Harold Lovre, and Representative E.Y. Berry standing in front of a building
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Representative Ben Reifel, Philleo Nash, Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Harry R. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Tour of new Veterans Administration hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1965
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Representative Ben Reifel (second from left) is with a group touring the new Veterans Administration hospital in Washington, D.C.
Representative Ben Reifel and astronauts Gus Grissom and John W. Young in 1965
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Representative Ben Reifel is shaking hand with astronaut Gus Grissom, Betty Grissom, astronaut John W. Young and his wife, Barbara Young stand to the right
Representative Ben Reifel, Rogers Morton, and Wilma Victor in 1971
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Representative Ben Reifel greets Wilma Victor, first woman deputy secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton stands behind them
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Representative Ben Reifel meets with Gabriel Nelson, Wakonda, South Dakota, Loren Adamson and Ralph Landsman, both from Centerville, South Dakota, to discuss the Vermillion River flood control project in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office
Representative Ben Reifel at a reception in Washington, D.C. in 1963
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Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, are at a reception in Washington, D.C. with Web Hill, and a representative of Life Magazine
Representative Ben Reifel with U.S. government officials
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Representative Ben Reifel with United States government officials; from left to right: Surgeon General Luther Terry; Representative Ben Reifel; Mrs. Polling, Indian Health Service; Miss Gifford, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Secretary ?; Mamie Mizen, Senate Appropriations; Dr. Wagner, Indian Health Service
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Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Senator Karl Mundt meet with South Dakota constituents; left to right: Representative Reifel; Marilyn Daczewitz; Senator Mundt; Col. Casey Fillbrandt; Representative Berry; Senator Joseph Bottum; Pat Fillbrandt
Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets
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Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress
Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets
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Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress
Ben Reifel talking with a farmer in a feed lot
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Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background
Ben Reifel talking with a farmer
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Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer standing by a Farmall tractor
Ben Reifel talking with A.E. Crooks and W.E. Bergeson about sugar beets in 1960
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Ben Reifel talking with A.E. Crooks, Spink County GOP chairman and president of the James River Valley Beet Growers Association from Frankfort, South Dakota and W.E. (Bill) Bergeson of the U & I Sugar Company in Belle Fourche, South Dakota about sugar beet during his 1960 campaign for Congress
Ben Reifel looking at grain samples in 1960
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Ben Reifel and an elderly man looking at grain samples
Ben Reifel talking with a farmer in a feed lot
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Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background
Ben Reifel during final day of his 1960 campaign
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Ben Reifel in Plankinton, South Dakota during the final days of his 1960 campaign for Congress
Ben Reifel reading a headline about his 1960 primary victory
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Ben Reifel reading an Aberdeen American News newspaper heading declaring him as the winner of the 1960 Republican primary in the first district of South Dakota, the headline reads: Reifel wins GOP contest
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Ben Reifel at his Bureau of Indians Affairs desk when he served as farm agent to the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation
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Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel signing HR 11413
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Representative Ben Reifel in his Washington D.C office about to sign HR 11413, an act to amend the Agricultural Act of 1961 to permit the planting of additional non-surplus crops on diverted acreage
Representative Ben Reifel feeding an elephant in 1963
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Representative Ben Reifel feeding an elephant peanuts
Representative Ben Reifel with Boy Scouts from the Aberdeen, South Dakota area in 1964
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Representative Ben Reifel with Boy Scouts from the Aberdeen, South Dakota area, from left to right: Clayton Roseth (Aberdeen), Bob Gill (Aberdeen), Dale Hieb (Ipswich), and Paul Gill (Aberdeen)
Representative Ben Reifel with Cub Scout Russell Nelson Gates
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Representative Ben Reifel is sitting at a desk while Cub Scout Russell Nelson Gates stands next to Reifel saluting him for a Cub Scout operation called Operation VIP, there is a brass elephants sitting on the desk
Representative Ben Reifel with Cub Scout Ronald Breeden
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Representative Ben Reifel is sitting in a chair, next to him is Cub Scout Ronald Breeden, they are both wearing Native American headdresses, Reifel is demonstrating a peace pipe
Ben Reifel and his wife Alice Reifel with Representative Don Short of North Dakota in 1960
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Ben Reifel and his wife Alice Reifel speaking with Representative Don Short of North Dakota
Members of Congress in session in the 1960s
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Members of Congress in session in the chambers of the United Stated capitol building
Representative Ben Reifel at a YMCA International Crossroads breakfast in 1962
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Representative Ben Reifel at a YMCA International Crossroads Sunday morning breakfast
Frank Good Lance, Ben Reifel, and Thor Spotted Bear at Wounded Knee Monument in 1954
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Frank Good Lance, Ben Reifel, and Thor Spotted Bear standing by Wounded Knee Monument on Mother's Day
Representative Ben Reifel with a U.S. National park ranger
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Representative Ben Reifel and a U.S. National park ranger standing outside
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Group of five people looking at maps
Ben Reifel, Governor Al Quie, and Representative Jim Abdnor at a Republican dinner in 1977
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Representative Ben Reifel is talking with Minnesota Governor Al Quie and Representative Jim Abdnor at a Republican dinner in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Alice Reifel in California in 1962
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Alice Reifel, Mrs. Durwinski, and Mrs. Montoya in California when their husbands were there with the Mexican-United States delegation
Ben and Frances Reifel in 1983
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Ben and Frances stand in front of a pine tree with two other people
Ben Reifel at a Nixon for President campaign rally in 1960
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Ben Reifel at a Nixon for President campaign rally, two women are pinning something on to the lapel of his suit
Senator Jim Abdnor and Representative Ben Reifel
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Senator Jim Abdnor is with Representative Ben Reifel, Frances Reifel, and Miss Indian America
Representative Ben Reifel at an event
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Representative Ben Reifel and his wife Alice Reifel are with Representative E.Y. Berry and two other people
Representative Ben Reifel at an event in 1965
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Representative Ben Reifel and five other people pose for a photograph, Reifel and the woman standing in front of him are holding elephant figurines
Representative Ben Reifel discussing sugar beets in 1962
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Representative Ben Reifel is with four other men, Reifel and another man are holding sugar beets
Representative Ben Reifel at an event in 1965
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Representative Ben Reifel is with a group of people standing beside a library, Reifel and another man are holding an American flag
Representative Ben Reifel at an event
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Representative Ben Reifel is with an unknown man who is shaking hands with a woman while another man watches, there is a sign in the background that reads: Ben for Congress
Representative Ben Reifel at an event
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Representative Ben Reifel is placing some type of wreath or necklace around a woman's neck, three men are standing at a podium
Representative Ben Reifel at an event in 1961
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Representative Ben Reifel talking with three men at the Sheraton Hotel
Representative Ben Reifel with Lem Overpeck at a Nils Boe for Governor campaign rally in 1964
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Representative Ben Reifel with Lem Overpeck and another man at a Nils Boe for Governor campaign rally, Overpeck was running for Lt. Governor
Senator Karl Mundt at a Republican Party event
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South Dakota Senator Karl Mundt speaking with two men during a Republican Party event
William Scranton speaking at a Republican Party event in 1964
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William Scranton, Republican U.S. House of Representatives candidate from Pennsylvania is speaking at a Republican Party event
William Scranton speaking at a Republican Party event in 1964
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William Scranton, Republican U.S. House of Representatives candidate from Pennsylvania is speaking at a Republican Party event
William Scranton on the campaign trail in 1964
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William Scranton, Republican U.S. House of Representatives candidate from Pennsylvania, greets supporters
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Senator Karl Mundt speaking with a woman
Alice Reifel campaigns for her husband, Ben Reifel, in 1960
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Alice Reifel stands by a portrait of her husband, Ben Reifel, while a seated woman pours coffee, and two campaign volunteers stand nearby during Ben Reifel's 1960 campaign
William Miller, Ben Reifel, and Clifton Hurlbert in 1964
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Candidate for Vice President William Miller shakes hands with Aberdeen, South Dakota Mayor Clifton Hurlbert on a stage, Representative Ben Reifel is standing behind them
Senator Karl Mundt in the 1961 Gypsy Days parade in Aberdeen, South Dakota
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Senator Karl Mundt sitting in a convertible with other men during Northern State Teachers College annual Gypsy Day parade in Aberdeen, South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel with his wife Alice in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1962
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Representative Ben Reifel with his wife Alice in Honolulu, Hawaii; with them are Arlene Jones, Marge Steplses, and Shirley Mlddy