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Roger Tellinghuisen is an American politician who was born on March 27, 1953 in American. He is currently 71 years old.
Tellinghuisen is a member of the Republican Party and has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2013. He is a member of the House Agriculture, Education, and Transportation Committees.
Tellinghuisen is a graduate of the University of Iowa and has worked as a farmer and a teacher. He is married to his wife, Mary, and has two children.
Tellinghuisen has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his career in politics and farming.
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Roger is a member of the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association and served as its president for the 2011–2012 term. He was a member of the Black Hills State University Foundation for 23 years, serving as its president for 17 of those years; he is a past president and board member of the Spearfish Chamber of Commerce and on numerous other boards and commissions. He has received numerous honors including being named a Great Plains Super Lawyer 2012 thru 2016; "125 Accomplished Alumni Award", Black Hills State University, 2008; a "Special Achievement Award" from Black Hills State University in 1990; South Dakota "Centennial Alumnus Award" in 1988; and the Outstanding Alumnus Award- Division of Business, Black Hills State University in 1988.
Following his service as Attorney General of South Dakota, Roger returned to private practice in 1991 with an emphasis in civil litigation, business law; real estate law, gaming law and lobbying. Roger recently joined the DeMersseman, Jensen, Tellinghuisen & Huffman, LLP law firm as a partner in 2011.
In 1986, he was elected in a statewide election to the office of Attorney General of South Dakota, at only the age of 33.
Roger won the Republican nomination for Attorney General at the South Dakota Republican Convention on June 27–28, 1986. On June 26, 1986, State Representative Scott Heidepreim withdrew from the race. On June 28, 1986, Meade County States Attorney Mike Jackley, who was a law school classmate of Roger's, withdrew before the voting commenced.
In 1984, the United States Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which withheld 10% of federal highway funding from states that did not maintain a minimum legal drinking age of 21. South Dakota, which allowed 19-year-olds to purchase (raised from 18 years old as result of NMDAA) beer containing up to 3.2% alcohol, Tellinghuisen challenged the law on behalf of the state of South Dakota, naming Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole as the defendant. Tellinghuisen petitioned the United States Supreme Court, which granted certiorari. He argued in front of the United States Supreme Court, although unsuccessfully (7-2), that the law was unduly coercive upon the state.
Following graduation from law school, Roger joined the firm of Amundson and Fuller in Lead, South Dakota where he was engaged in private practice. In 1981, he left private practice to join the Lawrence County States Attorney's Office where he prosecuted felony and misdemeanor cases. In 1982, Roger was appointed the first full-time states attorney for Lawrence County where he was the chief legal counsel and criminal lawyer for the county providing legal counsel to the Board of County Commissioners, Planning and Zoning Commission and the other county offices.
Roger Tellinghuisen graduated from Black Hills State University with a degree in Business Administration in 1975 and obtained his J.D. from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1978.
Roger Alan Tellinghuisen (born March 27, 1953) is an American attorney, was the 27th Attorney General of South Dakota from 1987 to 1991.