E.E. Cavanaugh

CAVANAUGH, INGALLS

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Date: 12/23/2003 at 05:14:18

E.E. CAVANAUGH
Senator from the twenty-seventh senatorial district, composed of Calhoun and Webster counties, was born July 29, 1881, in Lehigh, Webster county, Iowa. Attended the grade schools and graduated from high school of that city, in 1900. Graduated from Tobin college, normal school, Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1901. Taught school in the rural districts and was superintendent of the Lehigh schools for two years. Married to Belle M. Ingalls, of Lehigh, Iowa, in June, 1906. Elected county superintendent of Webster county, 1906. Served two terms. Entered the University of Iowa in the school of law. Graduated from the law school, University of Iowa, in 1910. Elected county attorney in 1912, and served two terms. Elected senator, November, 1924, on the republican ticket and re-elected in 1926.

Iowa Official Register 1927-1928 - Biographies of State Senators; pg. 229