Cessna, T. C.

CESSNA

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 12/21/2004 at 06:41:36

T.C. Cessna
Senator from the Twelfth district, composed of Poweshiek and Keokuk counties, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. Came to Iowa in 1887, and located in Grinnell. He was educated in the public schools and private instruction. Has been actively and extensively engaged in farming and the cattle business for the past thirty years. An active member of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' association. Is now chairman of the Poweshiek County Council of Defense. Elected senator in 1918. A republican politically.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of State Senators, pg. 323

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)