One of the most active and thorough statesmen of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly was the senator from Montgomery and Mills counties, Hon. J. M. Junkin, of Red Oak. He is a born and bred Iowa man. He was born in Fairfield in 1854, and lived there until the removal of his parents to Monroe county, from which place the senator removed in 1873, locating in Red Oak. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Fairfield and Red Oak, after which he attended the State university at Iowa City, and graduated from the law department in 1879. After his graduation be formed a partnership with the Hon. Horace E. Deemer, which partnership existed until Mr. Deemer was elected judge of the district court in 1886. Senator Junkin has built up a law practice of dimensions covering not only local business, but the entire section of southwestern Iowa, and the United States courts. He is one of the best known lawyers in Iowa. He was married in 1888 to Miss Olivette Chevalier, and they have one son, Chevalier J. Junkin. Mrs. Junkin is a popular woman in Des Moines social circles during the legislative sessions, especially so in club circles. They are members of no church, but their charitable work extends over much territory. Senator Junkin was often called the "silver-tongued" orator, and deserved the name. The practice of his chosen profession has so consumed his time that be never aspired to official life, yet has always been active in republican politics as to speaking. His work in campaigns has been much sought after, as he is a forceful and convincing talker. He received his nomination in the senatorial convention in the fall of 1895, by acclamation, a great compliment. No adverse criticism was heard of him in the campaign from the opposing party, a still greater compliment. His speech last year on the Temple amendment question was one much quoted, and of unbounded merit. He was chairman on the charitable institutions committee, and acted on the committees of congressional and judicial districts, penitentiaries and pardons, retrenchment and reform, code revision, and building and loan.

One of the most active and thorough statesmen of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly was the senator from Montgomery and Mills counties, Hon. J. M. Junkin, of Red Oak. He is a born and bred Iowa man. He was born in Fairfield in 1854, and lived there until the removal of his parents to Monroe county, from which place the senator removed in 1873, locating in Red Oak. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Fairfield and Red Oak, after which he attended the State university at Iowa City, and graduated from the law department in 1879. After his graduation be formed a partnership with the Hon. Horace E. Deemer, which partnership existed until Mr. Deemer was elected judge of the district court in 1886. Senator Junkin has built up a law practice of dimensions covering not only local business, but the entire section of southwestern Iowa, and the United States courts. He is one of the best known lawyers in Iowa. He was married in 1888 to Miss Olivette Chevalier, and they have one son, Chevalier J. Junkin. Mrs. Junkin is a popular woman in Des Moines social circles during the legislative sessions, especially so in club circles. They are members of no church, but their charitable work extends over much territory. Senator Junkin was often called the "silver-tongued" orator, and deserved the name. The practice of his chosen profession has so consumed his time that be never aspired to official life, yet has always been active in republican politics as to speaking. His work in campaigns has been much sought after, as he is a forceful and convincing talker. He received his nomination in the senatorial convention in the fall of 1895, by acclamation, a great compliment. No adverse criticism was heard of him in the campaign from the opposing party, a still greater compliment. His speech last year on the Temple amendment question was one much quoted, and of unbounded merit. He was chairman on the charitable institutions committee, and acted on the committees of congressional and judicial districts, penitentiaries and pardons, retrenchment and reform, code revision, and building and loan.

One of the most active and thorough statesmen of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly was the senator from Montgomery and Mills counties, Hon. J. M. Junkin, of Red Oak. He is a born and bred Iowa man. He was born in Fairfield in 1854, and lived there until the removal of his parents to Monroe county, from which place the senator removed in 1873, locating in Red Oak. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Fairfield and Red Oak, after which he attended the State university at Iowa City, and graduated from the law department in 1879. After his graduation be formed a partnership with the Hon. Horace E. Deemer, which partnership existed until Mr. Deemer was elected judge of the district court in 1886. Senator Junkin has built up a law practice of dimensions covering not only local business, but the entire section of southwestern Iowa, and the United States courts. He is one of the best known lawyers in Iowa. He was married in 1888 to Miss Olivette Chevalier, and they have one son, Chevalier J. Junkin. Mrs. Junkin is a popular woman in Des Moines social circles during the legislative sessions, especially so in club circles. They are members of no church, but their charitable work extends over much territory. Senator Junkin was often called the "silver-tongued" orator, and deserved the name. The practice of his chosen profession has so consumed his time that be never aspired to official life, yet has always been active in republican politics as to speaking. His work in campaigns has been much sought after, as he is a forceful and convincing talker. He received his nomination in the senatorial convention in the fall of 1895, by acclamation, a great compliment. No adverse criticism was heard of him in the campaign from the opposing party, a still greater compliment. His speech last year on the Temple amendment question was one much quoted, and of unbounded merit. He was chairman on the charitable institutions committee, and acted on the committees of congressional and judicial districts, penitentiaries and pardons, retrenchment and reform, code revision, and building and loan.

The Eighth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Montgomery and Mills, has as its member this winter the Hon. J. M. Junkin, of Red Oak. He is an Iowa man all through. His parents came from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Iowa, nearly fifty years ago, and located at Fairfield, where Mr. Junkin was born in 1854. He resided there until, with his parents, he removed to Monroe county, Iowa, from which place he came to Red Oak in 1873, where he has since resided. After attending the schools at Fairfield and Red Oak, he took the law course in the State University at Iowa City, graduating in 1879. The same year he formed a partnership with the Hon. H. E. Deemer, now judge of the supreme court, and they began the practice of their profession together. When Mr. Deemer was elected district judge in 1886 the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Junkin continued the business alone. His practice has grown to be very extensive, not only at his home, but throughout Southwestern Iowa, and in the United States courts. Mr. Junkin has earned and now occupies a place among the ablest lawyers in the state. During the early part of his career he held a number of minor offices, but has never in any sense been an aspirant for public office. The practice of his profession has absorbed all his attention to the exclusion of other matters that would interfere with his success at the bar. Each year, however, he has devoted a part of his time to active work on the stump for the Republican party, and in this field he has always been in great demand as he is not only a forceful, but also an entertaining talker. He was nominated in the Senatorial convention by acclamation, and the press in his part of the state, with one accord, spoke of him as a man in every way eminently qualified for the place. He was married in 1888 to Miss Olivette E. Chevalier, then principal of the public schools of Red Oak. To them has been born one child, a son, Chevalier J. Junkin.