SWENEY, Joseph H.

SWENEY, LARRABEE, HULL, REQUE, WELLER, PARKER

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Date: 12/12/2005 at 06:28:20

Joseph Henry Sweney, of Osage, was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1845, and is a widower; was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Iowa, by private study, and in the Iowa State University; graduated from the Law Department of that university with honors; is a lawyer by profession; was engaged for a time in banking, and carries on farming in connection with the practice of law; was a Sergeant in Company K, Twenty-seventh Regiment Iowa Infantry, in which he served for three years; was Colonel of the Sixth Regiment National Guard of Iowa, for four years; and Brigadier and Inspector General of the State, resigning after his election to Congress.

In 1883 was elected State Senator, and was re-elected in 1887; in 1886 was, by unanimous votes of Republican and Democratic Senators, elected president pro tempore, and presided over the joint convention at the inauguration of Governor Larrabee and Lieutenant-Governor Hull; in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second General Assemblies served as Chairman of the Senate Railway committee, and during his entire sservice in the Senate was amember of the Judiciary and Military Committee; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,852 votes, against 16,630 votes for L.S. Reque, Democrat, 408 votes for L.H. Weller, Labor candidate, 96 votes for H.G. Parker, Prohibitionist, and 16 votes scattering.

-source: Official Congressional Directory, Fifty-First congress, First Session, Third Ed., Corrected to May 10, 1890; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890; Iowa Representatives Fourth District, page 40

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