Oscar S. Gifford

Oscar Sherman Gifford (October 20, 1842 – January 16, 1913) was an American lawyer of Canton, South Dakota. He served six years in the United States House of Representatives, first as the non-voting delegate from the Dakota Territory, then as a full member of the House from South Dakota.

Biography Oscar was born in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, and moved with his parents to Wisconsin, settling in Rock County and then in Brown County, Illinois. He was district attorney for Lincoln County, mayor of Canton, and a member of the state constitutional convention of South Dakota which convened at Sioux Falls on September 7, 1883. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1890, and resumed the practice of law in Canton. He was the first superintendent of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians and resigned in 1908. He continued to live in Canton, where he died on January 16, 1913. He was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Canton.