80 years apart, state's senators have similar role in wake of crisis

In the years following the Crash of 1929, hopes of reforming the financial industry were heaped largely on the unlikeliest of politicians: a South Dakotan with a Scandinavian accent and little experience in the ways of Wall Street. As the nation now struggles to wrest itself from a modern financial crisis, another South Dakotan finds himself in the vanguard of the reform effort.

By: Seth Tupper, The Daily Republic