Due to support from Gary Hart he triumphed at his party's convention in Miami, but his campaign suffered from its replacement of Thomas Eagleton.  
In his first position, he attempted to use the Tidelands oil scandal and the unpopularity of Ezra Benson to prop up Kenneth Holson's senate bid, but the incumbent from Minnehaha County won out.  His own loss to that incumbent, Karl Mundt, in a bid for the Senate two years later gave him the time to direct the Food for Peace Program, and he later initiated proportional vote allocation as chairman of the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection.  In his time away from politics, he has written such books as The Great Coalfield War and Terry, in which he discusses his daughter's "life-and-death struggle with alcoholism."  Due to support from Gary Hart he triumphed at his party's convention in Miami, but his campaign suffered from its replacement of Thomas Eagleton.  FTP, name this South Dakotan who saw his anti-Vietnam platform rejected by every state but Massachusetts, the Democrat defeated by Richard Nixon in 1972.
In his first position, he attempted to use the Tidelands oil scandal and the unpopularity of Ezra Benson to prop up Kenneth Holson's senate bid, but the incumbent from Minnehaha County won out.  
George Stanley McGovern