Representative Ben Reifel meets with other members of the 1968 Democratic National Congressional Committee

Representative Ben Reifel meets with other members of the 1968 Democratic National Congressional Committee

Representative Ben Reifel is part of the Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary group

Millie Denholm dressed in a gown and a fur stole sitting in a chair waiting for the 1971 South Dakota Governors Ball to begin

Millie Denholm is shaking hands with First Lady Patricia Nixon

Miss Indian America Thomasine Hill is presenting Representative Ben Reifel an award at the Bill Harrison Fundraising event in Sheridan, Wyoming

Ben Reifel is on the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children, the group is on the lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Representative E.Y. Berry, Senator Karl Mundt, and Representative Ben Reifel are the guests of Harold Levinger of Yankton, South Dakota at the National Retail Merchants Association dinner in Washington, D.C.

Burdette Solum, president of Norwest Bank in Watertown, South Dakota, Fritzie, Class of 1933, and Ben Reifel, Class of 1932 were all welcomed as members of the Campanile Society by South Dakota State University president Robert Wagner

Orran Hofstetter (left) of Basic Incorporated in Orrville, Ohio greets Congressman Frank Denholm and his wife Millie Denholm at the National Limestone Institute Convention in Washington, D.C.

Paul Bear Save Life on an heirship land of 80 acres

Group of five people looking at maps

Phillip Ritterbush, Special Assistant for Scientific Matters, Congressman Robert T. Ashmore, and Alice Reifel talking during an Evening at the Smithsonian

Large group of people in front of the building at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico

Policeman on the airstrip at Joe Foss Field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Eastern Airlines plane on which Republican vice presidential candidate William Miller arrived on for a campaign rally is in the background

Portrait of Ben Reifel during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Signed portrait from Representative E.Y. Berry to Representative Ben Reifel: Best wishes to by colleague - a good Congressman Ben Reifel, E.Y. Berry

Portrait of Major General Eugene F. Cardwell, Commanding General, Southern European Task Force

Signed portrait from Senator Karl Mundt to Representative Ben Reifel: To Ben Reifel, A great campaigner with a bright congressional future. You are a real credit to our native state of South Dakota. Karl E. Mundt, U.S. Senate Jan. 16, 1961

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower with a group of people

President Dwight Eisenhower is speaking at an event, there are men holding microphones in front of him

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Frank Carlson at an event

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Frank Carlson at an event

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Frank Carlson bow their heads solemnly

President Lyndon B. Johnson and two other men stand behind a table at an event

President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event

President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event

President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event

President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event

President Lyndon B. Johnson walks out of a room in front of three other men

President Richard Nixon delivering his budget address to Congress

Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of the Mahatma, and Editor-in-Chief of the Indian weekly ""Himmat,"" addressing over 800 delegates to the Mackinac demonstration in 1965

Reporters and supporters listening to Ronald Reagan in Brookings, South Dakota campaigning for Nixon-Agnew in 1968

Representative Ben Reifel with a traveling classroom group from Nova Scotia on the steps of the US Capitol in 1964

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Web Hill looking at a beaded American Indian shirt in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel pointing with his right hand

Representative Ben Reifel talking with two men

Former Representative Ben Reifel talking with a man in a classroom

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel is seated in an audience, the audience is applauding

Representative Ben Reifel is talking to a constituent

Representative Ben Reifel and an unknown man in Washington, D.C.; there is illegible writing in the bottom right hand corner of the image

Representative Ben Reifel shakes hands with a man in front of Christopher Columbus' cabin aboard a replica of the ship the Santa Maria

Representative Ben Reifel and John Roy Lucas, electronics technician first class, from Madison, South Dakota, talking aboard the USS John Marshall, an Ethan Allen-class submarine

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel shakes hands with an officer aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel eating with the crewmen aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel inspects an aircraft gun aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel talks with officers aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel in the mess line aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel eating with the crewmen aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel sits in a rescue helicopter aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel visits the main ship's store aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel addresses South Dakota Farmers Union bus trippers in the Veterans Affairs Committee Room in Washington, DC

Representative Ben Reifel and 1961 South Dakota Cherry Blossom Princess Patricia Lay from Aberdeen, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel and 1965 summer intern Mike Pieplow from Aberdeen, South Dakota on the US Capitol steps

Representative Ben Reifel and 1967 intern, Donna Bluehorse, who was also Miss Rosebud, on the US Capitol steps

Representative Ben Reifel and summer intern D'Ann Kyrk, an Augustana College student from Milbank, South Dakota, working in Reifel's office

Representative Ben Reifel and a constituent on the US Capitol steps

Representative Ben Reifel and a young cadet

Representative Ben Reifel and a young cadet

Representative Ben Reifel and A.E. Crook of Frankfort, South Dakota, on the US Capitol steps

Representative Ben Reifel talks with A.E. Crooks of Frankfort, South Dakota. Reifel is holding a bowl of sugar cubes

Representative Ben Reifel is with his wife, Alice Reifel, and Al Gustafson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel is with his wife, Alice Reifel, and Al Gustafson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel and Aldean Farrell, National 4-H delegate from Bullhead, South Dakota on the US Capitol steps

Representative Ben Reifel discusses a book with Alice Kundert of Mound City, South Dakota in his Washington, D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel at the Mackinac Demonstration

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, are boarding the presidential jet, Air Force One, in New York for a flight to Los Angeles as part of the Mexican-American Delegation

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, at a dinner for the Prime Minister of Jamaica

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel holding up a Hobo Day promotional sign in Washington, D.C., the US Capitol is visible in the background

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice tour a field during a trip to Thailand

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel in the audience at the Mackinac demonstration

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel on the GOP Victory Special train in Lake Preston, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with 1964 Science Talent Search scholarship winner Lee Snyder, from Huron, South Dakota. Snyder was awarded a $5000 scholarship

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with a family from Watertown, South Dakota on the steps of the US Capitol

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with a young girl in Washington, D.C., the US Capitol is in the background

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with Bob and Jayne Shaffer on the steps of the US Capitol

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with Bob Barker and his family in Washington, D.C. Barker's mother, Mathilda Valandra has her arm around Alice's shoulders, Barker's wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, is on the far right

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with constituents in Washington, D.C. The US Capitol is in the background

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with constituents in Washington, D.C.