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Senator Joseph Martin Emmert View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 7/15/1909
Birth Place: Washington County, Maryland
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 27 (1898) - 29 (1902)
Home County: Cass
Joseph Martin Emmert
Cass County

DR. J. M. EMMERT was born in Washington county, Maryland, June 13, 1846; he died at Atlantic, Iowa, July 15, 1909. He was the son of Joshua and Anna G. (Funk) Emmert. He was educated at Mechanicsburg and the Millersville State Normal School of Pennsylvania, and graduated at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1872. He removed to Hamburg, Fremont county, the same year, and on March 16, 1874, removed to Atlantic, Iowa, where his home thereafter remained. He was a delegate to the International Medical Congress in Philadelphia in 1876. He was appointed a member of the State Board of Health in 1892, serving until his resignation in 1898, upon being elected to the State Senate. He was appointed to a membership on the State Board of Parole in 1907, in which office he was serving at the time of his death. He was a successful financier, a loyal, enthusiastic member of the Presbyterian church, and a member of fraternal societies.

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Senate District 18
Committees
27th GA (1898)
Legislation Sponsored
27th GA (1898)