John N. Langfitt

LANGFITT, MARTIN

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John N. Langfitt
Senator from the sixteenth district, composed of Adair and Madison cuonties, was born in Scott county, Iowa, May 9, 1866. On his father's side he is of Scotch-Irish descent. His mother was of English descent. His early education was received in the rural schools. He also attended Wilton academy and Davenport business college. when twenty-one years of age he went to Adair county. Four years later he married Clara A. Martin of Greenfield. Mrs. Langfitt died July 14, 1924. There are four surviving children, Harry M. of Chariton, Iowa; Bernice Louise of Des Moines; Clara Mildred and John N., Jr., students in college. He lived for several years in western Washington but returned to Adair county in 1898, purchasing the family homestead on which he still resides. In religion, a Presbyterian. He is a blue lodge and thirty-second degree Mason. He was representative from Adair county in the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth general assemblies and was elected senator in 1924. In politics, a republican.

Iowa Official Register 1927-1928 - Biographies of State Senators, pg. 233