Mickelson GeorgeS

American Republican politician and Vietnam War veteran, who served as the 28th Governor of South Dakota from 6 January 1987 until his death in a plane crash near Zwingle, Iowa, on 19 April 1993 at age 52. The crash happened on the same day as the end of the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas, which overshadowed it in national news coverage. He is a member of the prominent Mickelson family of South Dakota. His father, George T. Mickelson, was also governor of South Dakota, from 1947 to 1951. To date, the Mickelsons are the only father-son duo to have held that office. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less