George Sherman Banta

BANTA

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Date: 12/21/2004 at 05:28:46

George Sherman Banta
Senator from the Thirty-third district, composed of Delaware and Buchanan counties. He is a farmer and live stock breeder, living near Manchester. Born in Delaware county, July 2, 1884, his parents being farmers; a graduate of the Manchester high school, University of Iowa Colleges of Liberal Arts, 1906, and Law, 1911; devoted several years to the practice of law in Johnson county; elected senator in 1920 on the republican ticket.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of State Senators, pg. 322

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)