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Representative William B. Chapman View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 11/9/1937
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 25 (1894) - 26 (1896)
Home County: Woodbury
William B. Chapman
Woodbury County
The Representative from Woodbury county outside of Sioux City is the Hon. W. B. Chapman of Correctionville. He was born at Wayne, Ashtabula county, Ohio, November 18, 1854. His parents sent him first to the public schools and then to Hiram College in Ohio. On removing to Iowa they settled in the northwestern part of the state and continued their son's education by sending him to the State University at Iowa City. Farming life is the only one which has had any charms for Mr. Chapman. Out in the field and with the livestock he feels more satisfied than cramped up in the close quarters of the town or city. Several times he has been tempted to lay aside the arduous duties of agriculture life, but the mere comparison of the dull routine of the town with the free life, the growing crops and broad fields of the country has always been enough to continue him at his post. There he will remain. Several times he has held local township offices, but his service in the Twenty-fifth General Assembly was his first venture into anything like official life which took him from home. Mr. Chapman has always been a Republican. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and attends the Unitarian church. In the last Legislature he was chairman of the committee on woman suffrage, and served as a member of the committees on agriculture, medicine and surgery, compensation of public officers, animal industry, public lands and buildings, judicial districts and police regulations. He is a liberal Republican on the liquor question and his course of two years ago will be continued this session.
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House District 58
Committees
26th GA (1896)
Legislation Sponsored
26th GA (1896)