PIERRE, S.D. — Former U.S. Rep. Clint Roberts, a South Dakota rancher who corralled cowboy roles on television and auditioned to be the “Marlboro Man,” a nickname that stuck in Congress, has died. He was 82.

The former Republican congressman and South Dakota agriculture secretary died early Monday from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to his daughter-in-law, Pam Roberts.

Clint Roberts once owned a 5,000-acre cattle and wheat ranch near Presho, in central South Dakota, and represented the state’s western 2nd Congressional District from 1981 to 1983. He lost re-election when reapportionment left South Dakota with only one U.S. House seat.

Roberts, born in Lyman County in 1935, also served in the state Senate and twice sought the Republican nomination for governor, in 1978 and 1986.