Sen. John C. Calhoun

CALHOUN, RAINS

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IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934
BIOGRAPHIES
STATE SENATORS

JOHN N. CALHOUN, KEOSAUQUA. - Senator from the second district, composed of Van Buren and Jefferson counties, was born December 2, 1903, at Birmingham, Iowa. His father, O. S. Calhoun, has been a prominent stock buyer and farmer of that community for forty years. Raised on a farm adjoining Birmingham and attended Birmingham public schools; also Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, working way through and was graduated in 1926. Taught in Lockridge, Iowa, high school two years. Operated restaurant and started produce business at Lockridge. Attended University of Iowa College of Law on George G. Wright scholarship in first year and was graduated in 1929. Admitted to practice in state and federal courts in 1929 and entered into active practice with J. C. Calhoun at Keosauqua, Iowa, under the firm name of Calhoun & Calhoun, of which he is still an active member. Married Dorothea C. Rains, June 25, 1929. Member of Masonic lodge, Acacia and Phi Delta Phi fraternities and Keosauqua Lions Club. Serving first term in the legislature. A Republican.