Representative James Underwood View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 11/22/1901

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
House: 16 (1876)

Home County: Grundy

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Brother: Myron Underwood; GA 21

James Underwood

Grundy County

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions of respect to the memory of Hon. James Underwood, late of Greene county, Iowa, submit the following:

WHEREAS, the Hon. James Underwood, formerly an honored member of the Sixteenth General Assembly as a representative from Grundy county, and a gallant soldier of the civil war, came to an untimely death by accident at Grand Junction, Greene county, Iowa, on November last; therefore, be it

Resolved, That in his death the state of Iowa has lost a conscientious, worthy and loyal citizen, the community in which he lived an upright and useful member, his family a kind and devoted husband and father, and all who came to know him well a friend, whose pure and noble life is entitled to the approval and commendation of his fellow men.

Resolved, That this body extend to the sorrowing wife and family our sincere sympathy in their great loss, and the clerk of the House is hereby instructed to mail an engrossed copy of these resolutions to the widow of the deceased.

WM. G. KERR,

H . B. KLING,

MAHLON HEAD,

Committee.

Adopted.

House District 48

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16th GA (1876)

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