Senator Orsmond M. Barrett View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 3/1/1899

Birth Place: Oswego County, New York

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
Senate: 20 (1884) - 23 (1890)

House: 19 (1882)

Home County: O’Brien

Orsmond M. Barrett

O’Brien County

One time the leading lawyer of Sheldon, was born June 28, 1837, served in the Civil War as a Union soldier, and settled in the practice of his profession at Sheldon in 1875. He was at various times associated with Charley Allen, Alfred Morton, C. H. Bullis and S .A. Callvert, his name always heading the firm. He was a representative in the nineteenth General Assembly, and senator in the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third General Assemblies of Iowa. He was a Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Senate District 49