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GEORGE J. DUGAN has the personality and the
technical ability that make for success in the legal profession, of which he is
a prominent representative in the City of Perry, Dallas County, where he has
been engaged in the successful practice of law during a period of twenty years.
Mr. Dugan has the distinction of being one of the
representative members of the bar of his native county, for he was born on the
parental home farm in Dallas County, June 10, 1886, and is a scion of a family
that was here established in the pioneer days- sixty years ago. His father,
James Dugan, was born in Ireland and was a child when he accompanied his parents
to the United States, where he was reared to manhood and where his alert and
receptive mind enabled him to profit by the educational advantages that were
afforded him. He resided a number of years in Wisconsin, and in 1870 he came to
Dallas County, Iowa, and engaged in farm enterprise, in which the passing years
brought to him substantial success. He passed the closing period of his life at
Rippey, Greene County, where his death occurred May 6, 1914. His wife, whose
maiden name was Margaret Markey, was born at Sullivan, Wisconsin, and there
their marriage was solemnized. In death they were not long separated for the
death of Mrs. Dugan occurred May 8, 1914, only two days after that of her
husband, their mortal remains being laid to rest at the cemetery at Rippey.
After completing his studies in the high school at
Rippey, George J. Dugan was for a time a student in the academic or liberal arts
department of Drake University, Des Moines, and in the law department of that
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1910, his admission to
the bar of his native state having been virtually coincident with his reception
of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In initiating the practice of his profession
at Perry Mr. Dugan became associated with his brother, Judge Harry S. Dugan, and
their partnership alliance continued until the latter was elected to the bench
of the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, in 1919, though in the
meantime, in 1912, George J. Dugan removed to Woodbine, Harrison County, where
he was established in practice until 1915, when he returned to Perry and resumed
his law partnership with his brother, this alliance, as before noted, having
been terminated by the election of his brother to the office of judge of the
District Court. Mr. Dugan now controls a substantial and important general law
practice of individual order and maintains his offices in the Brice &
McLaughlin Building.
That Mr. Dugan has had much of influence and leadership
in the Iowa councils and campaign activities of the Democratic party is
evidenced in that he was, in 1929, chairman of the Seventh Congressional
District. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1928, at
Houston, Texas, and his professional activities at Perry have included his
service as city solicitor and assistant county attorney. He is affiliated with
both York and Scottish rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, besides being a
Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and is a past exalted ruler of Perry Lodge, B. P. O.
Elks. He and his wife have membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
September 9, 1908, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dugan
to Miss Emma Harned, of Grand Junction, Greene County, where she was graduated
in the high school, she having thereafter pursued a thorough course in the
musical department of Drake University, Des Moines. Doris, only child of Mr. and
Mrs. Dugan, was born at Woodbine, this state, May 10, 1914, and is a student in
the high school in her home City of Perry.
Mr. Dugan is an influential and popular member of the
Dallas County Bar Association and has membership also in the Iowa State Bar
Association and the American Bar Association.
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