History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911

Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, page 378
FIRST AND LAST MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

When Iowa was admitted as a state Judge S. Clinton Hastings was its first representative in congress. That was no little distinction for that remarkable personage and the bar of Muscatine considered, and that very justly, that honor had been thrust upon it. That was many years ago--some little over a half century. In the meantime, while many of its members arose to high rank in the profession and attained exalted positions of trust and importance, it remained for one of its youngest members, I. S. Pepper, to make the second member of the Muscatine bar to represent this congressional district at Washington. He is now serving his first term and representing the interests of his constituency ably and well.

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