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Roy Armstrong (1900-1987) —
of Flandreau, Moody
County, S.Dak.
Born in Moville, Woodbury
County, Iowa, December
12, 1900.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 17th District, 1953-60;
secretary, Farmer's Mutual Fire & Lightning Insurance Company.
Died in Moody
County, S.Dak., May 7,
1987 (age 86 years, 146
days).
Interment at Union Cemetery, Flandreau, S.Dak.
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Louis J. Baerthel (1866-1931) —
also known as "Daddy" —
of Casper, Natrona
County, Wyo.
Born in Illinois, July 24,
1866.
Real
estate and insurance business; mayor of
Casper, Wyo., 1928-29; defeated, 1929.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
20, 1931 (age 64 years, 211
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Julius E. Baerthel and Catherine (Loess) Baerthel; married to
Barbara M. Apperle. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Knight Boardman (b. 1915) —
also known as William K. Boardman —
of Ketchikan, Ketchikan
Gateway Borough, Alaska.
Born in Iowa, 1915.
Republican. Insurance business; member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 1st District, 1953-54;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Alaska
Territory, 1956;
member of Alaska
state house of representatives, 1961-70; Speaker of
the Alaska State House of Representatives, 1967-68.
Methodist.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Alfred Brigadier (b. 1882) —
also known as B. A. Brigadier —
of New Hampton, Chickasaw
County, Iowa.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
1, 1882.
Republican. Insurance agent; member of Iowa
Republican State Central Committee, 1930-32; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Member, Rotary;
Lions;
Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Brigadier and Cecelia Brigadier; married, May 29,
1933, to Florence M. Muller. |
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Beryl Franklin Carroll (1860-1939) —
also known as Beryl F. Carroll —
of Bloomfield, Davis
County, Iowa; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Davis
County, Iowa, March
15, 1860.
Republican. School
teacher; livestock
dealer; newspaper
editor; candidate for Presidential Elector for Iowa; candidate
for Iowa
state house of representatives, 1893; member of Iowa
state senate, 1895-98; postmaster;
Iowa
state auditor, 1903-09; Governor of
Iowa, 1909-13; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Iowa, 1912;
organizer and president, Provident Life Insurance Company.
Methodist.
Died, from coronary
thrombosis, in Kentucky Baptist Hospital,
Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., December
16, 1939 (age 79 years, 276
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Bloomfield, Iowa.
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Ira Cook (1821-1902) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Union Center, Broome
County, N.Y., October
6, 1821.
Republican. Surveyor;
banker;
insurance and real
estate business; mayor
of Des Moines, Iowa, 1861.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, March
11, 1902 (age 80 years, 156
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Ron J. Corbett (b. 1960) —
of Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born in Erie, Erie
County, Pa., October
12, 1960.
Republican. Insurance agent; co-founder of Peppy's Ice Cream,
operator of trucks selling ice cream in Eastern Iowa; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1987-99; resigned 1999; Speaker of
the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1995-99; president,
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, 1999-2005; vice-president, CRST trucking
company, from 2005; mayor
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2010-.
Still living as of 2014.
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Charles W. Dempster (c.1879-1941) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa, about 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1901-02; Supreme Secretary of the
Fraternal Brotherhood, an insurance union; on February 1,
1917, when he was ousted
by the brotherhood's Supreme Council on grounds of insubordination,
he drew
a revolver and held the council at bay for ten minutes; after
being disarmed by a private detective, he was arrested
for disturbing the peace; candidate for California
state senate 31st District, 1920; member of California
state assembly, 1931-34 (57th District 1931-32, 61st District
1933-34); candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1932, 1933 (primary).
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Eagles.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 20,
1941 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Grace Warner. |
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Edward Albert Dow (b. 1879) —
also known as Edward A. Dow —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa, April
20, 1879.
Railway
timekeeper; real
estate and insurance business; U.S. Consul in St. Stephen, 1915-17; Fort William, 1917; Port Arthur, 1917; Ciudad Juarez, 1917-20; Algiers, 1920-24; Rotterdam, 1924-28; Frankfort, 1928-30; U.S. Consul General in St. John's, 1930-33; Santiago, 1933-38.
Catholic.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Noble Dow and Nora Gertrude Dow; married, October
6, 1909, to Rose C. Rush. |
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Olaf K. Fjetland (1893-1969) —
also known as O. K. Fjetland —
of Lemmon, Perkins
County, S.Dak.; Iron River, Iron
County, Mich.; Gladstone, Delta
County, Mich.
Born in Ellsworth, Hamilton
County, Iowa, March
26, 1893.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; insurance agent; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Dakota, 1924;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1928,
1932.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., October
6, 1969 (age 76 years, 194
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Relatives: Son
of Ingeborg (Skeie) Fjetland and Knut Fjetland. |
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Daniel Smith Glidden (b. 1844) —
also known as Daniel S. Glidden —
of Montour, Tama
County, Iowa; Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.
Born in Clarendon, Orleans
County, N.Y., February
24, 1844.
Democrat. Boot and shoe
business; insurance business; treasurer, Dakota Territory
Democratic Party.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Josephine Martin. |
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James Mountain Inhofe (b. 1934) —
also known as James M. Inhofe; Jim Inhofe —
of Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, November
17, 1934.
Republican. President, Quaker Life Insurance Company; member
of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1967-69; member of Oklahoma
state senate, 1969-77; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1972;
candidate for Governor of
Oklahoma, 1974; mayor of
Tulsa, Okla., 1978-84; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 1st District, 1987-94; defeated,
1976; resigned 1994; U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1994-.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2021.
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Frank Darr Jackson (1854-1938) —
also known as Frank D. Jackson —
of Iowa.
Born in Arcade, Wyoming
County, N.Y., January
26, 1854.
Secretary
of state of Iowa, 1885-91; Governor of
Iowa, 1894-96; insurance executive.
Died in Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif., November
16, 1938 (age 84 years, 294
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Roger William Jepsen (b. 1928) —
also known as Roger Jepsen —
of Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa.
Born in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk
County, Iowa, December
23, 1928.
Republican. Insurance business; member of Iowa
state senate, 1967-69; Lieutenant
Governor of Iowa, 1969-72; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1972;
U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1979-85; defeated, 1984.
Lutheran.
Member, Izaak
Walton League; Farm
Bureau; Shriners;
Reserve
Officers Association.
Still living as of 2014.
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Robert Edward Kersting (b. 1916) —
also known as Robert Kersting —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Clinton, Clinton
County, Iowa, August
26, 1916.
Democrat. Lawyer; test
pilot and executive, Howard Aircraft
Co.; president, Red Rock Ranches and
Arizona Aviation
Co.; secretary, treasurer, director, Savage Industries, Inc., Sun
States Land and
Development Co.; director, general counsel, Insurance
Corporation of America; president, general counsel, Yavapai Hotels
Corp.; director, Prescott Utilities
Corp.; member of Arizona
Democratic State Central Committee, 1951-70; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arizona, 1956
(alternate), 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; Moose; Fraternal
Order of Police.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustus Henry Kersting and Eva (Schaub) Kersting; married, February
29, 1968, to Fracine Bassett. |
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Charles Merritt McFatridge (1871-1949) —
of Moravia, Appanoose
County, Iowa.
Born in Monroe
County, Iowa, August
14, 1871.
Real
estate and insurance business; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1937.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of cerebral
thrombosis, in Moravia, Appanoose
County, Iowa, January
1, 1949 (age 77 years, 140
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Moravia, Iowa.
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Benjamin Baker Merrill (1871-1951) —
also known as Benjamin B. Merrill —
of Hockanum, East Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Frankville, Winneshiek
County, Iowa, July 20,
1871.
Republican. Insurance business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from East Hartford, 1925-28;
defeated, 1942.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., January
2, 1951 (age 79 years, 166
days).
Interment at Hillside Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of George D. Merrill and Nancy Pulsifer (Treat) Merrill; married to
Mary Catherine Gehan; fourth great-grandnephew of Robert
Treat; second cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; third cousin of Arthur
Edwards Bidwell; third cousin twice removed of John
Taintor, Roger
Taintor, Solomon
Taintor, Orsamus
Cook Merrill and Timothy
Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of Robert
Treat Paine; fourth cousin once removed of Greene
Carrier Bronson, John
Russell Kellogg, John
Adams Taintor, Eliphalet
Adams Bulkeley, George
Smith Catlin, Francis
William Kellogg, Henry
G. Taintor, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Delos
Fall and Herbert
Dudley Witherell. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Edwin Miller (1880-1946) —
also known as Edward E. Miller —
of East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Creston, Union
County, Iowa, July 22,
1880.
Republican. Real
estate and insurance business; private secretary to U.S.
Rep. William
A. Rodenberg; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1912;
Illinois
state treasurer, 1921-23; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 22nd District, 1923-25.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., August
1, 1946 (age 66 years, 10
days).
Interment at St.
Clair Memorial Park Cemetery, East St. Louis, Ill.
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Richard J. Norpel Sr. (1918-2007) —
of Bellevue, Jackson
County, Iowa.
Born in Bellevue, Jackson
County, Iowa, June 24,
1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; grocer; hotelier;
insurance and real
estate business; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1971-72; member of Iowa
state senate, 1975-76.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus.
Died May 24,
2007 (age 88 years, 334
days).
Interment at Bellevue
Catholic Cemetery, Bellevue, Iowa.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Herman Pogeman; son of Charles Norpel and Laura (Meier)
Norpel; married, February
23, 1943, to Janaan Lewis. |
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William N. Plymat Sr. (d. 1993) —
of Iowa.
Republican. Insurance business; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 5th District, 1970; member of Iowa
state senate, 1973-76.
Died in 1993.
Burial location unknown.
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John George Regan (b. 1872) —
also known as John G. Regan —
of Adel, Dallas
County, Iowa.
Born in Platte
County, Neb., June 3,
1872.
Democrat. School
teacher; insurance and real
estate business; abstractor;
lawyer;
mayor of Adel, Iowa, 1920-24, 1928-30; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Iowa, 1936,
1940.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Rudolph Rohlfs (1856-1926) —
of Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa.
Born in Iowa, February, 1856.
Republican. Insurance agent; button
manufacturer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Iowa, 1912.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry.
Died April 8,
1926 (age 70 years, 0
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of M. J. Rohlfs and Eliza (Rohde) Rohlfs. |
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Harold Joseph Teachout (1892-1975) —
also known as Harold Teachout —
of Farragut, Fremont
County, Iowa; Shenandoah, Page
County, Iowa.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, April
24, 1892.
Democrat. Farmer;
insurance agent; candidate for Iowa
state senate, 1938; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Iowa, 1940,
1952.
Methodist.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Rotary.
Died in 1975
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram E. Teachout and Amelia E. (Kuntz) Teachout; married, April 5,
1916, to Vera V. Vickers. |
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