Joseph R. Frailey

FRAILEY

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Date: 12/25/2003 at 05:05:27

JOSEPH R. FRAILEY
Senator from the first district, composed of Lee county, was born in Ft. Madison, March 2, 1876. Graduated Ft. madison high school in 1893; State University of Iowa, liberal arts, 1898; law, 1900. Second Lieutenant, Company F, Fiftieth Iowa Infantry, United States Volunteers, during the Spanish-American war, and up to the time this regiment was mustered out of service. City solicitor of Ft. Madison from 1905 up to the time he took his seat in the senate, at which time he resigned. Served as a member of the state senate from Lee county in the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth general assemblies. Connected with the legal department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad from 1900 to 1905. Practiced law in Ft. Madison since 1905. Is married. Republican in politics. During the political campaign of 1920, he spoke for the republican national committee in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado, and during the national campaign of 1924 in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. He is trustee of the Cattermole Memorial Library in Ft. Madison, and one of the trustees of the $250,000 gift of Alexander Coleman, Esquire, for the purpose of building a road in Lee and Henry counties, Iowa.

Iowa Official Register 1927-1928 - Biographies of State Senators, pg. 230-231