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Representative Marshall Homer Brinton View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 6/6/1912
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 25 (1894) - 26 (1896)
Home County: Hamilton
Marshall Homer Brinton
Hamilton County

MARSHALL HOMER BRINTON was born in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1856; he died at Ellsworth, Hamilton county, Iowa, June 6, 1912. He graduated from Jefferson College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1879. He removed to Hamilton county in 1884 and soon entered very extensively into the business of stock raising and banking. He became the president of the American Life Insurance Company of Des Moines. He was elected in 1893 as a representative of the sixty-third Iowa district in the Twenty-fifth General Assembly, and was re-elected and served the second term. He was chairman of the committee on Banks and Banking during his first session and of the committee on Fourth Division during his second. He served during both his first and second sessions on the committees on Ways and Means and Roads and Highways. He was a very strong and positive factor in educational and religious movements, his influence being felt far beyond the immediate region of his home.

Sources:
House District 63
Committees
25th GA (1894)
Legislation Sponsored
25th GA (1894)