Alex Rentto

Alexander Rentto (October 5, 1905 – March 7, 1995) was a justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court from May 1, 1955, to September 15, 1971.

Born in Lead, South Dakota , Rentto attended the local high school and graduated from South Dakota State College and received his law degree from the University of South Dakota School of Law . Rentto practiced law in Sioux Falls, South Dakota , then worked for a year at the Federal Land Bank in Omaha, Nebraska , and was later elected state's attorney in Lawrence County, South Dakota , from 1934 to 1939, after which he returned to private practice. In 1943, Rentto was appointed as a county court judge, and was elected to the circuit court in 1947. In 1955, Governor Joe Foss appointed Rentto to a seat on the South Dakota Supreme Court vacated by the resignation of Boyd Leedom , who had accepted an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board .

Rentto resigned from the court in 1971, but remained active as a senior justice until 1975. He died from heart failure at Northern Hills General Hospital in Deadwood, South Dakota , at the age of 89, and was buried at South Lead Cemetery.

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1. ↑ A Photographic History of the South Dakota Supreme Court (1995), p. 13.

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   Denise D. Tucker, "Alex Rentto, retired judge, dies at 89 of heart failure", Sioux Falls Argus-Leader (March 11, 1995), p. 13.

3. ↑ "Foss Will Appoint Rentto State Judge", The Black Hills Weekly (February 23, 1955), p. 1.

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