Senator Nathan Marsh Pusey View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 10/9/1922

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
Senate: 26 (1896) - 27 (1898)

Home County: Pottawattamie

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Brother: William H.M. Pusey; GAs 7, 8

Nathan Marsh Pusey

Pottawattamie County

NATHAN MARSH PUSEY

MR. PRESIDENT Your committee named to prepare a memorial to commemorate the life and service of Nathan Marsh Pusey, submit the following report:

Nathan Marsh Pusey was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the 21st day of June, 1841. In 1849 the family moved to Baltimore where Mr. Pusey was educated. Mr. Pusey was educated in a private school conducted by Mr. Ashbury Morgan and then took up the study of law in the office of Judge Stockbridge, the father of Judge Henry Stockbridge, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland. He was admitted to the Bar of Maryland in 1864 and in 1865 married Miss Gertrude Morgan. He continued to practice law in the city of Baltimore until his removal to Council Bluffs in 1878. In 1882 he formed a partnership with Col. W. F. Sapp and the firm of Sapp & Pusey were actively engaged in the practice of law in Council Bluffs until the death of Colonel Sapp in 1892. Mr. Pusey served as a Senator from Pottawattamie County, Iowa in the regular session of the 26th General Assembly and in the extra session of the 26th General Assembly and in the 27th General Assembly. The Code of 1897 was adopted at the extra session of the 27th General Assembly. His work in the preparation of the Code is regarded as extremely noteworthy. He was an excellent lawyer of broad experience and unlimited industry. He was a brother or W. H. M. Pusey, one of the pioneer law makers of the state and a member of the Senate for the Seventh and Eighth General Assemblies and a representative in the Forty-eighth Congress. Mr. Pusey died In Council Bluffs, October 9, 1922.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Pusey the Senate recognizes the loss of a valuable citizen who desired and labored to improve and upbuild his community and state, and takes this occasion to express its appreciation of his character and public service, and to extend its sympathy to his family in their bereavement; and

Be It Further Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the journal and a copy of them transmitted by the secretary to the family of the deceased.

W. S. BAIRD,

BYRON W. NEWBERRY,

J. L. BROOKHART.

The resolutions were adopted unanimously.

Senate District 19