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Permanent LinkRepresentative Peter John Klinker View All Years
PETER J. KLINKER, legislator and jurist, died at his home in Denison, Iowa, January 27, 1944, passing away just six days after being notified that his only son, Lieutenant Norman Klinker, had been killed in action with the armed forces in Italy; born in Wester Ohrsted, Germany, January 9, 1877, and came to Crawford county, Iowa, with his widowed mother in May 1882; was educated in the Denison schools and the University of Iowa, graduating from the law college and beginning practice in 1901 at Denison; married to Garnet Lucile Norman June 4, 1914 in Omaha, Neb.; was elected county attorney of Crawford county in 1902 serving ten consecutive years; elected state representative in 1914 and re-elected in 1916; appointed judge of the Sixteenth judicial district in 1930, and had attended to district court matters as late as the day previous to his death. He was a member of the Baptist church and of the Redmen and the Masonic orders.