By the death of Senator T. C. McCall a vacancy was made in the ranks of the holdover Senators, and the Hon. H. C. Boardman of Nevada, Story county was elected to the place. He was born in Vermont, February 22, 1849, his parents being Norman Boardman and Lois Knight Boardman. His parents moved to Iowa while he was a boy and located in Lyons, Clinton county. There attended the public schools and afterwards he was a student at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. For a long time he has been a resident of Nevada, being an extensive dealer in produce. He has been mayor of the city of Nevada for five terms and was previously alderman for six terms. The Republican party has always found him a faithful worker. He was chairman of the county central committee of Story county for a number of years. In 1892 he was the delegate from the seventh congressional district to the Republican national convention. The same year he was chosen to fill the vacancy in the senatorship made by the death of Senator McCall. He is a member of the Universalist Church.