Dowell, Cassius C. (1864-1940)

DOWELL

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Cassius C. Dowell
Representative in the congress of the United States from the Seventh congressional district of Iowa, composed of the counties of Polk, Dallas, Madison, Marion, Story and Warren, was born in Warren county, Iowa. American parentage. Republican in politics. Was a member of the sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth congresses. Re-elected to the sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh congresses.
-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of Representatives in Congress, pg. 319

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1864-Present
DOWELL, Cassius Clay, a Representative from Iowa; born on a farm near Summerset, Warren County, Iowa, February 29, 1864; attended the public schools, Baptist College at Des Moines, Iowa, and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa; graduated from the liberal arts department of Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, in 1886 and from its law department in 1887; admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced practice in Des Moines; member of the Iowa state house of representatives, 1894-1898; served in the Iowa state senate, 1902-1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3 (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Roads (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fourth Congress in 1934; resumed the practice of law in Des Moines; elected to the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1940 (January 3, 1937-February 4, 1940); interment in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa; reinterred on June 17, 1941, in Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.

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