Representative from Delaware county, a farmer, was born in Marion county, May the 13th, 1886, educated in the rural schools, married June 4th, 1907, to Fern Mason, of Knoxville, Iowa, and is the father of seven children, five girls and two boys. In the spring of 1908 moved to Wyoming, where he resided until 1918, then moving to Delaware county, where he has resided since that time. A republican.