Editing Joe Foss (section)

==Postwar==

===Air National Guard===
In August 1945, Foss was released to inactive duty and opened ''Joe Foss Flying Service'', charter flying service and flight instruction school in Sioux Falls, that eventually grew into a 35-aircraft operation. With a friend, Duane "Duke" Corning, he later owned a Packard car dealership in the town.<ref>Brokaw 1998, p. 119.</ref>

In October 1945, Foss was ordered to appear at Navy Day ceremonies in four cities there and was finally relieved from active duty in December 1945 but was retained in the Marine Corps Reserve on inactive duty until 1947. In 1946, Foss was appointed a [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]] in the South Dakota Air National Guard and instructed to form the [[South Dakota Air National Guard]], becoming the Commanding Officer for the Guard's [[175th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron]]. During the unit's formative years, Foss was actively involved in administration and flying with the squadron, even becoming a member of their North American P-51 Mustang air demonstration team.<ref>[http://mva.sd.gov/museum_114th.html "114th Fighter Wing, South Dakota Air National Guard."] ''South Dakota Department of the Military and Department of Veterans Affairs.'' Retrieved: August 4, 2011.</ref> During the [[Korean War]], Foss, then a [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]], was called to active duty with the [[United States Air Force]], relinquishing command of the 175th Squadron, and served as a Director of Operations and Training for the Central Air Defense Command; he eventually reached the rank of [[Brigadier General (United States)|Brigadier General]].<ref name="Century">[http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/WW2/aces/Joseph%20Foss.htm "Joe Foss"] ''Century of Flight,'' 2003. Retrieved: August 4, 2011.</ref>

===Political career===
[[File:Joe Foss official portrait as Governor.jpg|thumb|150px|Foss as Governor, 1955]]
Campaigning from the cockpit of a light aircraft, Foss served two elected terms as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] representative in the [[South Dakota State Legislature|South Dakota legislature]] and, beginning in 1955, at age 39, as the state's youngest [[Governor of South Dakota|governor]].<ref name="Miller p. 212">Miller 1969, p. 212.</ref> During his tenure as governor, he accompanied [[Tom Brokaw]], then a [[High school (North America)|high school]] student and Governor of South Dakota [[American Legion]] [[Boys/Girls State|Boys State]], to [[New York City]] for a joint appearance on ''Two for the Money'', a [[television game show]], which featured Foss because of his wartime celebrity. {{#tag:ref|Both Brokaw and Foss each won $612.|group=Note}} Foss had previously appeared on the long-running game show ''[[What's My Line]]'' on May 1, 1955. {{#tag: ref|Foss signed in using his middle name, Jacob, in a further effort to stump the panel. It was revealed through the panel's questioning that Foss had been in Las Vegas attending a demonstration at the Nevada Test Site where he met ''[[What's My Line]]'' host John Daly.|group=Note}}

In 1958, Foss unsuccessfully sought a seat in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], having been defeated by another wartime pilot hero, the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[George McGovern]]. Foss tried to re-enter politics in 1962 in a campaign to succeed [[Francis H. Case|Sen. Francis Case]], who died in office. Foss and several other contenders lost to [[Joseph H. Bottum]], who filled out Case's term.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}