Senator Jesse J. Wall View All Years

MR. PRESIDENT—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public services of Honorable J. J. Wall, beg leave to submit the following report:

J. J. WALL.

WHEREAS, On the 6th day of December, 1916, J. J. Wall, a former member of the state senate of Iowa, during the eighteenth and nineteenth General Assemblies, departed this life at his home in the city of Centerville, Iowa, and

WHEREAS, His record as a man, a legislator, public official and a citizen, has been of the highest character, and

WHEREAS, It is fitting that we should recognize in some fitting manner, the passing of this ex-Senator. Therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of Iowa, That in the death of J. J. Wall, the state of Iowa has suffered the loss of a good citizen and a faithful official.

Mr. Wall was eighty-five years, three months and four days old at the time of his death. During his lifetime he had been one of the most promising men of the country, especially in his younger days.

He was born in Tennessee on September 3rd, 1831, but removed to Iowa when a young man and lived on a farm in Appanoose County.

In politics, he was affiliated with the democratic party although in the later years of his life he became an advocate of the doctrine of the Socialist party.

He made his home in Centerville for twenty-one years prior to his death. He had always been an active man, even up to a short time before his death. He is survived by his faithful wife, only. There having been no children born to the union, although the couple had raised several as foster children.

His was a temperament of intense character. His vote on all moral questions was at all times unquestioned, being always an advocate of the right course of living, as well as the proper attitude toward his fellow men. Be it further

Resolved, That the life of J. J. Wall is worthy of commendation, both as to his faithfulness in public life and his dealings with his fellow men in private life.

Be It Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon 'the records of this Senate and engrossed copy thereof be sent to his surviving wife.

J. M. WILSON.

K. M. LE COMPTE.

JNO. R. PRICE.

The resolutions were adopted unanimously by a rising vote.