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BIOGRAPHIES OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM IOWA
SENATORS
JONATHAN PRENTISS DOLLIVER,
Republican, of Fort Dodge, was born near
Kingswood, Preston county, Virginia (now West Virginia),
February 6, 1858; graduated in 1875 from the West Virginia
University; was admitted to the bar in 1878; never held any
political office until elected to the Fifty-first Congress as
a Representative from the Tenth Congressional district of
Iowa; was a member of the House also in the Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses; August 23, 1900, was appointed United States
Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J.H.
Gear, and was elected January 21, 1902, to succeed himself;
re-elected January 23, 1907; term expires March 4, 1913.
ALBERT BAIRD CUMMINS,
Republican of Des Moines, Polk county,
was born near Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1850;
was educated in the public schools, preparatory academy, and
was three years in Waynesburg (Pa.) College; the latter
institution conferred the degree of M.A. and LL.D. upon him,
and Cornell College, Iowa, that of LL. D.; is a lawyer by
profession and married; was a member of the House of
Representatives of the Twenty-second General Assembly of Iowa;
a member of the Republican National Committee from 1896 to
1900, and Governor of Iowa from January, 1902, until elected,
Nov. 24, 1908, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate
caused by the death of Hon. W.B. Allison. He was re-elected
January 19, 1909, for the term beginning March 4, 1909. His
term of service will expire March 4, 1915.
REPRESENTATIVES
CHARLES A. KENNEDY,
Of Montrose, Lee county, Representative
from the First District, composed of the counties of Des
Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren and
Washington, was born in Montrose, Lee county, March 24, 1869;
finishing the high school course he formed a partnership,
which still exists, with his brother in the nursery business.
At the age of twenty-one he was elected mayor of Montrose and
served four terms; served as a member of the House in the
Thirtieth and Thirty-first General Assemblies, being the first
Republican from Lee county in twenty-two years; was elected to
the Sixtieth Congress from the First District November 6,
1906, and re-elected November 3, 1908.
Republican in politics.
ALBERT FOSTER DAWSON,
Of Preston, Jackson county,
Representative from the Second District, composed of the
counties of Clinton, Iowa, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine, and
Scott, was born at Spragueville, Iowa, January 26, 1872; was
educated in the common schools of Iowa, supplemented by one
year at the University of Wisconsin; engaged in newspaper work
at Preston and Clinton; served several years in the
organization of Congress; was elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906, and
re-elected November 3, 1908.
Republican in politics.
CHARLES EDGAR PICKETT,
Of Waterloo, Black Hawk county,
Representative from the Third District, composed of the
counties of Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Delaware,
Dubuque, Franklin, Hardin and Wright, was born in Van Buren
county, Iowa, January 14, 1866; graduated from collegiate
department of the State University of Iowa in 1888 and from
the law department in 1890, and has since been engaged in the
practice of his profession; was a regent of the State
University of Iowa from 1896 to 1909; elected to the
Sixty-first Congress November 3, 1908.
Republican in politics.
GILBERT N. HAUGEN,
Of Northwood, Worth county,
Representative from the Fourth District, composed of the
counties of Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton,
Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, and Worth, was
born April 21, 1859, in Rock county, Wisconsin; since the age
of fourteen, and prior to his election to Congress, he was
actively engaged in various enterprises, principally real
estate and banking; was treasurer of Worth county, Iowa, for
six years; sixth General Assemblies; was elected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth,
Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses.
Republican in politics.
JAMES WILLIAM GOOD,
Of Cedar Rapids, Linn county,
Representative from the Fifth District, composed of the
counties of Benton, Cedar, Grundy, Jones, Linn, Marshall and
Tama, was born September 24, 1866, near that place; graduated
from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, in 1892, receiving the degree
of bachelor of science; also graduated from the law department
of the University of Michigan in 1893, receiving the degree of
bachelor of laws; is a lawyer by profession; has never before
held any office of a public nature except that of City
Attorney for the city of Cedar Rapids from April, 1906 to
April, 1908; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress November
3, 1908.
Republican in politics.
NATHAN E. KENDALL,
Of Albia, Monroe county, Representative
from the Sixth District, composed of the counties of Davis,
Jasper, Keokuk, Mahaska, Monroe, Poweshiek, and Wapello, was
born at Greenville, Lucas county, Iowa, March 17, 1868; has no
education except that acquired in the rural schools of that
county; was married April 20, 1896, to Miss Belle Wooden of
Centerville, Iowa; is a lawyer by profession; served two terms
(1893-1897) as County Attorney of Monroe county, Iowa, and
five terms (1899-1909) as Representative from Monroe county in
the General Assembly of Iowa, the last term as speaker of the
House; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress November 3,
1908.
Republican in politics.
JOHN ALBERT TIFFIN HULL,
Of Des Moines, Representative from the
Seventh District, composed of the counties of Dallas, Madison,
Marion, Polk, Story and Warren, was born at Sabina, Clinton
county, Ohio, May 1, 1841; removed with his parents to Iowa in
1849; was educated in public schools, Ashbury (Ind.)
University, and Iowa Wesleyan College, at Mount Pleasant; was
graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law School in the spring
of 1862; enlisted in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry July,
1862; was first lieutenant and captain; was wounded in the
charge on entrenchments at Black River May 17, 1863; resigned
on account of wounds, October, 1863; was elected Secretary of
State in 1878 and re-elected in 1880 and 1882; was elected
Lieutenant-Governor in 1885 and re-elected in 1880 and 1882;
was elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1885 and re-elected in
1887; is engaged in farming and banking; was elected to the
fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth,
Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses.
Republican in politics.
WILLIAM D. JAMIESON,
Of Shenandoah, Representative from the
Eighth District, composed of the counties of Adams, Appanoose,
Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Lucas, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Union
and Wayne, was born of American parentage on his father's farm
near Wapello, Louisa county, Iowa, November 9, 1873. When five
years of age his parents moved to Wapello, where his father
assumed the position of principal of the city schools; when
nine years old he went into his father's printing office and
with the exception of the years spent in school and college,
and as a traveling salesman, has been actively engaged in
newspaper work ever since. Received his education in the
common schools and the State University. When nineteen years
of age he became editor of The Ida Grove Pioneer, and
while at Ida Grove was chairman of the Democratic County
Central Committee for one year; later assumed control and
management of The Gazette at Columbus Junction. In 1902
moved to Shenandoah, where he assumed control and management
of The Shenandoah World, which paper he now owns and edits,
together with the Democrat at Hamburg, in Fremont county,
which he purchased in 1906. In November, 1902, was married to
Miss Nettie Vass of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Elected State Senator
in 1906. Elected to the Sixty-first Congress November 3, 1908.
Resigned as State Senator March 3, 1909.
Democrat in politics.
WALTER INGLEWOOD SMITH,
Of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie county,
Representative from the Ninth district, composed of the
counties of Adair, Audubon, Cass, Guthrie, Harrison, Mills,
Montgomery, Pottawattamie and Shelby, was born at Council
Bluffs, July 10, 1862; received a common school education, and
studied law in November, 1890, and re-elected in 1894 and in
1898, and was elected in November, 1900, to the Fifty-sixth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon.
Smith McPherson; was elected to the Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first
Congresses.
Republican in politics.
FRANK P. WOODS,
Of Estherville, Emmet county,
Representative from the Tenth District, composed of the
counties of Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Greene,
Hamilton, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Webster
and Winnebago, was born at Walworth county, Wisconsin,
December 11, 1868, where he attended the public schools,
afterwards finishing his education at the Northern Indiana
Normal School at Valparaiso; in 1877 moved to Iowa; in 1906
and 1907 was chairman of the Republican State Central
Committee; was elected to the Sixty-first Congress November 3,
1908.
Republican in politics.
ELBERT HAMILTON HUBBARD,
Of Sioux City, Representative from the
Eleventh District, composed of the counties of Buena Vista,
Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceloa,
Plymouth, Sac, Sioux and Woodbury, was born at Rushville,
Indiana, August 19, 1849, the son of Hon. Asahel W. Hubbard,
who was a member of Congress from the Fourth District of Iowa,
1862-1869; graduated from Yale College in the class of 1872,
and is a lawyer; married Eleanor Hermance Cobb June 6, 1882,
and has four children, E.H., Charlotte, Lyle and Eleanor;
served as a member of the house of Representatives, Nineteenth
General Assembly of Iowa, and of the Senate in the
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth General Assemblies; was
elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first
Congresses.
Republican in politics.
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