Leo ELTHON

ELTHON, HJELMELAND

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/6/2011 at 21:48:35

Leo Elthon

Leo ELTHON, FERTILE IA. - Senator from the forty-first district, comprised of Worth, Winnebago and Mitchell counties, was born in Fertile, Iowa, June 9, 1898, and is now engaged in general farming. He attended the elementary schools at Fertile and graduated from the high school there in 1917. Later he attended the Augsburn Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, and Hamilton's University of Commerce, Mason City, Iowa. He taught school during two years, 1918 and 1919, in the capacity of manual training and athletics at Clear Lake, Iowa, and later as principal in the high school at Fertile. He started farming in 1920. His farming operations include truck gardening, pickle processing, and in the winter cattle and hog feeding. He was married to Synneva HJELMELAND of Fertile, February 28, 1922, and has two sons and two daughters. A republican.

NOTE: Leo ELTHON was elected as the 34th Lieutenant Governor in November of 1952. He served as the 32nd Governor of Iowa from November 21, 1954 to January 13, 1955, filling the unexpired term of Governor William S. BEARDSLEY who had died in office. After serving as governor, he returned to his duties as Lieutenant Governor, serving in that capacity until 1957. He then served as the mayor of Fertile for 1958 to 1963, then again in the State Senate from 1963 to 1965. Leo ELTHON died April 16, 1967 and was interred at Bruch Point Cemetery, Hanlontown, Worth County, Iowa.

SOURCES:
Iowa Official Registers: 1933 - 1934 Iowa State Registar. February, 1933-34.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Elthon

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2011

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