Representative Alfred Allen Ramsay View All Years

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Alfred Allen Ramsay

Monroe County

Born August 13, 1821, in Fleming County, Kentucky. In 1826, came with his parents to Putnam County, Indiana. In 1853, he came to Albia, Iowa and commenced the practice of his profession graduating in March, 1854, from Keokuk Medical College. He commenced the drug business in 1853. He was a member of the Legislature in the Twelfth General Assembly, 1868, and took an active part with Wilson, Dowd, Dudley and others, in the great R. R. contest in resuming and granting back the land to the C., R. & P. R. R., he with others insisting that the R. R. should concede the right to the Legislature to control said R. R. in freight and fare. He was again elected to serve in the Twenty-first General Assembly, 1886. He was elected on the republican ticket in the fifties, and later was elected on the fusion ticket of democrats and greenbackers. He has been a prominent man in the community, and was the recognized leader of the populists in Monroe county. He married Mary E. Shearer March 24, 1854.

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