After retirement, he continued to act as county road supervisor and as an election judge.

Lawrence County lies on the west side of South Dakota.

The terrain of Lawrence County consists of mountains in the south and west, falling off to the hilly northeast portion.

[5] The terrain generally slopes to the county's northeast corner; its highest point is Crooks Tower, at 7,137'.

In terms of ancestry, 44.5% were German, 13.7% were Irish, 13.4% were English, 11.4% were Norwegian, and 4.4% were American.

Source:[5] Owing to its Yankee influence, Lawrence County has been reliably Republican for a full century.

It was the only South Dakota county to remain loyal to Herbert Hoover in his landslide 1932 loss.

The only Democratic presidential candidates to carry Lawrence County have been Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916, and William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

In 2020, Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen received 3.9% of the popular vote, her second best performance in any county during the election cycle.