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Representative John Hiram Hartenbower View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 9/28/1903
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 13 (1870)
Home County: Madison
John Hiram Hartenbower
Madison County
Born April 7, 1828, in Louisville, Kentucky. He moved to Winterset, Madison County, Iowa in 1866. He owned 160 acres of land that he farmed. He was elected as a State Representative in the Thirteenth Iowa General Assembly, 1870. John Hartenbower was in the California Gold Rush. He was married to Anna McCaleb in 1853. He was a member of the Populist Party. On Feb. 18, 1873, he was elected as a "Master" of the Grange No. 895. He started out in politics as a Democrat.
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House District 21
Committees
13th GA (1870)
Standing Committees
Legislation Sponsored
13th GA (1870)