Emory H. ENGLISH

ENGLISH, HAMPTON, CARTER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/6/2011 at 21:52:08

Emory H. English

Emory H. ENGLISH, State Printer, was born January 15, 1871, at Altoona, Iowa. His father, Dr. Frank E. ENGLISH, was an early resident and practitioner in Polk county, removing to Iowa with his wife, Kate M. HAMPTON, in 1868, from Montgomery county, Indiana, both parents being natives of Kentucky.

Receiving a common school education at Altoona, Mr. ENGLISH has devoted the past twenty years to newspaper work, purchasing the Altoona Herald in 1889, and editing the same until 1892, when he sold that paper and became associate editor of the Des Moines Mail and Times.

In 1893 he established The Valley Express at Valley Junction, continuing as editor and proprietor until 1904, when he became editor of The Mason City Daily Times-Herald, of Mason City, now The Mason City Times, with which paper he is still identified, though not in any active capacity since assuming the office of State Printer in 1907, as his official duties have required his time in Des Moines.

Mr. ENGLISH is a Republican in politics and served as Representative from Polk county in three sessions of the Iowa General Assembly, the Twenty-ninth, the Thirtieth, and the Thirty-first. He was the first native of the county to serve as its representative in the General Assembly, and the author of the first primary law enacted in Iowa. During his legislative service Mr. ENGLISH was chairman of the Insurance Committee of the House.

He was elected State Printer by the Thirty-first General Assembly, and assumed the office in January, 1907, for the term of two years, until January, 1909. He was re-elected by the Thirty-second General Assembly for the term expiring in January, 1911, and again re-elected by the Thirty-third General Assembly for the term expiring in January, 1913.

Mr. ENGLISH was married in 1895 to Marie Belle CARTER of Des Moines, and they have two sons, Ehlers Wendell ENGLISH and Wade Hampton ENGLISH.

SOURCE: "Biographies of State Officer" Iowa Official Registers: 1909 - 1910 Iowa State Registar. Des Moines.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2011