Representative Timothy J. Sullivan View All Years

HONORABLE T. J. SULLIVAN

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the Honorable T. J. Sullivan, of Clayton county, beg leave to submit the following report:

T. J. Sullivan, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on August 29, 1851, a son of John and Mary Fitzgerald Sullivan. He moved to Keokuk with his parents in 1856, where he resided a short time, later moving to St. Louis, Missouri, then to McGregor, Iowa in 1861, where he resided until the time of his death, July 17, 1936.

During his early manhood he clerked in wholesale and retail dry goods stores, later purchasing one of the clothing stores in which he was employed. He continued in this business until his retirement in 1895.

He was united in marriage on November 23, 1879, to Miss Anna Korte, who preceded him in death. Two children, Raymond Sullivan, an attorney at New Hampton, Iowa, and Marie Sullivan McDevitt of McGregor, Iowa, mourn the death of their beloved father.

Mr. Sullivan served as a representative from Clayton county in the Twenty-sixth General Assembly. Later serving the city of McGregor as Mayor, member of the board of education, councilman, and justice of the peace.

He was a member of the Catholic church.

He lived a long, honorable and active life and deserved the honors which came to him.

Therefore Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable T. J. Sullivan, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

OTTO FUELLING,

GEO. L. SCOTT,

OVE T. ROE,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.