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JAMES E. JAMISON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable James E. Jamison, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
James E. Jamison was born in Des Moines County, Iowa, on November 27, 1880, and was the son of George S. and Ida C. Hawkins Jamison.
He married Juanita McGuire of Kirksville, Missouri, who is an artist and organist.
Mr. Jamison attended Burlington Schools and served in World War I. He became a messenger boy for the old First National Bank. Two years later he joined the staff of John Blaul’s Sons Wholesale grocery firm, as an office employee. He later became a clerk at Merchants National Bank.
Eventually, Mr. Jamison took over his father’s insurance agency, which he built into one of the leading agencies of the city.
Mr. Jamison was a member of the First United Presbyterian Church, the Elks and Moose Lodges, and the Rotary Club and Ancient Order of United Workmen.
He served a three-month term as Burlington’s Commissioner of Finance, was a member of the Citizens Water Commission Board, and was a director representing the city on the MacArthur bridge board until the bridge became the property of the city. He served on many other boards, commissions, and committees, and was prominent in Democratic Party circles. He was a member of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth sessions.
Mr. Jamison passed away on December 12, 1969, and is survived by his widow, Juanita Jamison, and a sister, Jeanette Jamison of Reading, Pennsylvania.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixtythird General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable James E. Jamison, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
DR. CHARLES P. MILLER
LLOYD F. SCHMEISER
ADRIAN B. BRINCK
Committee