One of the last Democrats from the Great Plains to be elected to national office, he built his career on delivering benefits to his home state, South Dakota.

Tim Johnson, a South Dakota Democrat who served for nearly three decades on Capitol Hill — 10 years in the House and 18 in the Senate — earning bipartisan respect as a quiet workhorse attuned to the needs of his state,

Former Sen. Tim Johnson, a centrist who was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota and who spent nearly three decades in Congress, has died.