Henry Loucks (1846–1928) was a newspaper editor and politician in the Dakota Territory, United States.
Biography Henry Langford Loucks was born in Canada of Luxembourger-German and Irish immigrants.Frank Van Nuys, 'Immigrants and Politics in South Dakota, 1861-1930', in The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture (eds. Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller, Donald C. Simmons, Jr.), Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2011, p. 49 In 1890, he was nominated by members of the Farmers' Alliance as candidate for governor of South Dakota for the Independent Party, a precursor to the People's Party (United States).Steven L. Piott, Giving voters a voice: the origins of the initiative and referendum in America, University of Missouri Press, 2003, pp. 21-22 However, he lost to Arthur C. Mellette.
He was also the editor of the Dakota Ruralist newspaper.David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, University of Nebraska Press, 2004, p. 683
One of his sons, Daniel K. Loucks, was the Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
Bibliography Government ownership of railroads and telegraph: as advocated by the National Farmers' Alliance and industrial union (1893) The new monetary system as advocated by the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union (1895) The great conspiracy of the house of Morgan and how to defeat it (1916) Our Daily Bread: Must Be Freed from the Greed of Private Monopoly (1919) How to restore and maintain our government bonds at par (1921)
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