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Representative Samuel Whitmore View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 10/18/1867
Birth Place: Ohio
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 1 (1846)
4 (1852)
Home County: Jefferson
Samuel Whitmore
Jefferson County
Born December 2, 1795, in Ohio. Mr. Whitmore married Miss Elizabeth Shuss on September 15, 1816, in Harrison County Ohio. He came to Iowa in 1842 from Ohio, where he had amassed a considerable amount of property in contracting work on canals. In 1844, Mr. Whitmore was a delegate to the Iowa Constitutional Convention in Iowa City representing Jefferson County. He was also elected to the State Legislature serving in the First and Fourth General Assemblies, 1846 and 1852. Mr. Whitmore died October 18, 1867, at Batavia, Jefferson County, Iowa.
Sources:
House District 9
Committees
1st GA (1846)
Legislation Sponsored
1st GA (1846)