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Published January 12, 2012, 12:00 AM

Images from the life of Bill Janklow


In this Nov. 4, 2011 file photo, former South Dakota governor, Bill Janklow announces he is dying of brain cancer at his office in Sioux Falls, S.D. Janklow's son Russ Janklow says his father died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. He was 72. The flamboyant politician left a lasting mark on South Dakota politics by serving four terms as governor but resigned as the state's congressman after causing a fatal traffic accident. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Elisha Page)

  • In this Nov. 4, 2011 file photo, former South Dakota governor, Bill Janklow announces he is dying of brain cancer at his office in Sioux Falls, S.D. Janklow's son Russ Janklow says his father died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. He was 72. The flamboyant politician left a lasting mark on South Dakota politics by serving four terms as governor but resigned as the state's congressman after causing a fatal traffic accident. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Elisha Page)
  • In this Oct. 14, 2005, file photo, former congressman and South Dakota governor Bill Janklow listens to arguments in his appeal to the South Dakota Supreme Court to get his law license back at the State Capitol in Pierre, S.D. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer, File)
  • U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow, R-S.D., listens to a question as he sits behind a sea of microphones at a press conference in Sioux Falls where he told reporters he couldn't be sorrier for an accident he was involved in that killed motorcyclist Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minn. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer)
  • In this Oct. 2, 1983, file photo South Dakota Gov. Bill Janklow is shown at his desk. Janklow, a flamboyant politician who left a lasting mark on South Dakota politics by serving four terms as governor but resigned as the state's congressman after causing a fatal traffic accident, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. He was 72. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, File)
  • In this Oct. 31, 2002, file photo, President George W. Bush and Republican candidate for a House seat, Gov. Bill Janklow raise their arms to the crowd during a rally at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D. Janklow, a flamboyant politician who left a lasting mark on South Dakota politics by serving four terms as governor but resigned as the state's congressman after causing a fatal traffic accident, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. He was 72. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
  • Gov. Bill Janklow addresses the media after the Spencer Tornado in June 1998. (Republic File Photo)
  • Plum Creek School students, from left, Cody O'Dea, Luke O'Dea and Trey Fortune help Gov. Bill Janklow, right, sign a bill creating Statehood Day, a working holiday in the state, as their teacher, Jeanette Riedy, standing in backround, looks on, Thursday, March 1, 2001, in Pierre, S.D. The three students and classmate Toyela Fortune, not at event, are responible for initiating the bill that designates November 2 as Statehood Day. (AP Photo/Eric Williams)
  • South Dakota Gov. Bill Janklow talks to reporters on the shoreline of Lake Francis Case in Chamberlain, S.D., Monday, May 6, 2002. Janlow criticized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for dropping water levels and killing walleye eggs in the Missouri River reservoir. South Dakota sued the corps to prevent the lowering of Lake Oahe, and the corps then dropped the water level by 3 feet on Lake Francis Case, the second reservoir below Oahe. (AP Photo/Chet Brokaw)
  • Gov. Bill Janklow, seated, passes a pen to Sen. Arne Brown, R-Brookings, during a signing ceremony in the governor's office in Pierre, S.D., Friday, Feb. 25, 2000, of an act to appropriate money for the USS South Dakota memorial. The senators and representatives present at the signing are veterans. (AP Photo/Jon Kieckhefer)
  • In this Aug. 1, 2003, file photo Rep. Bill Janklow, R-S.D., looks out at the crowd during a radio interview at the State Fair in Huron, SD. Janklow, a flamboyant politician who left a lasting mark on South Dakota politics by serving four terms as governor but resigned as the state's congressman after causing a fatal traffic accident, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. He was 72. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer, File)