Senator from the Seventh District, composed of the counties of Fremont and Page, was born of American parentage on his father's farm near Wapello, Louisa county, Iowa, November 9, 1873. When five years of age his parents moved to Wapello, where his father assumed the position of principal of the city schools; when nine years old he went into his father's printing office and with the exception of the years spent in school and college, and as a traveling salesman, has been actively engaged in newspaper work ever since. Received his education in the common schools and the State University. When nineteen years of age he became editor of The Ida Grove Pioneer, and while at Ida Grove was chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee for one year; later assumed control and management of The Gazette at Columbus Junction. In 1902 moved to Shenandoah, where he assumed control and management of The Shenandoah World, which paper he now owns and edits, together with The Democrat at Hamburg, in Fremont county, which he purchased in 1906. In November, 1902, was married to Miss Matie Vass of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Elected Senator in 1906. Elected Representative in Congress from the Eighth Congressional District in 1908. Resigned as State Senator March 3, 1909. A Democrat in politics.

JOHN H. JACKSON Senator from the Thirty-second District, composed of the county of Woodbury, was born in the village of Albany, Green county, Wisconsin, June 30,1 863. He is of English descent, his parents emigrating from Yorkshire, England to Wisconsin, at an early date. His boyhood was spent in the village of Belleville, Dane county, Wisconsin, where he attended the public and select schools, working in a gristmill with his father during vacations. Also attended Ripon College, at Ripon, Wisconsin. Moved to Jefferson, Iowa, in January, 1884, where he studied law in the office of the Hon. Z. A. Church for the balance of that year, when he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Courts of Greene county, Iowa, under J. A. Henderson, Clerk, which position he filled for two terms, at the same time continuing his law studies. In 1888 he graduated from the Law Department of the State University of Iowa and returned to Jefferson and completed his services as Deputy Clerk. He then practiced law in Scranton, Iowa, for one year and moved to. Sioux City in February, 1890, where he has since resided and continued in the practice of his profession. Was secretary of the Republican Central Committee of Woodbury county in 1898 and chairman of both City and County Republican Central Committees for several terms. Elected Senator in 1903 and served in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies. Married Miss Mary Isabelle Mangold of Sioux City in October, 1906. Is a member of the Sioux City Commercial Club, several social clubs, the Masonic orders, including the Knights Templar and Shrine, and the Elks Lodge. A Republican in politics.