Category: Iowa

Representative | Republican | HENDERSON, DAVID BREMNER, a Representative from Iowa; born in Old Deer, Scotland, March 14, 1840; immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Winnebago County, Ill., in 1846; moved to Fayette County, Iowa, in 1849; attended the common schools and the Upper Iowa University at Fayette; enlisted in… Continue reading David Henderson

Representative | Greenback | WEAVER, JAMES BAIRD, a Representative from Iowa; born in Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1833; moved with his parents to Michigan in 1835 and subsequently moved to Iowa and settled on a farm near Bloomfield; attended the common schools; studied law at Bloomfield 1853-1856; was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in… Continue reading James Weaver

Representative | Republican | HAUGEN, GILBERT NELSON, a Representative from Iowa; born near Orfordville, Rock County, Wis., April 21, 1859; attended the rural schools; moved to Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1873 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; attended Breckenridge College, Decorah, Iowa, and Academic and Commercial College, Janesville, Wis.; engaged in various enterprises, principally real… Continue reading Gilbert Haugen

Senator | Republican | CUMMINS, ALBERT BAIRD, a Senator from Iowa; born near Carmichaels, Greene County, Pa., February 15, 1850; attended the public schools, and a preparatory academy; graduated Waynesburg (Pa.) College in 1869; moved to Iowa; briefly engaged as a carpenter; clerked in the office of the recorder of Clayton County; moved to Allen… Continue reading Albert Cummins

Senator | Republican | ALLISON, WILLIAM BOYD, a Representative and a Senator from Iowa; born in Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; attended country schools, the academy in Wooster, Ohio, and Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.; graduated from Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio (now in Cleveland), in 1849; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1852 and… Continue reading William Allison

Lt. Governor | Republican | HICKENLOOPER, BOURKE BLAKEMORE, a Senator from Iowa; born in Blockton, Taylor County, Iowa, July 21, 1896; attended the public schools and Iowa State College at Ames until April 1917, when he enrolled in the officer’s training camp at Fort Snelling, Minn.; commissioned a second lieutenant, embarked overseas in August 1918… Continue reading Bourke Hickenlooper

Governor | Republican | Terry Branstad on Wikipedia Terry Branstad on OurCampaigns.com