Senator Ernest Lincoln Hogue View All Years

This photograph is provided for official informational purposes only. The image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, or otherwise used without prior written authorization from the Iowa General Assembly. Requests for permission to use this image must be submitted to the Chief Clerk of the House for House members or the Secretary of the Senate for Senate members.

Ernest Lincoln Hogue

Monona County

ERNEST LINCOLN HOGUE.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee which was appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and service of the late Ernest L. Hogue beg leave to submit the following report and move its adoption:

Ernest Lincoln Hogue was born in Monroe County, Iowa, August 31, 1861. When two years old his parents moved to Warren County and located near Norwalk. He was educated in the common schools and as a young man moved to Monona County in 1885, and this county was his residence until the time of his death.. In occupation he was a farmer and livestock raiser on an extremely extensive basis, until the affairs of the State of Iowa called him to its service. He served in the State Senate in the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first General Assemblies. He was chairman of the Iowa-Nebraska Boundary Commission from 1921 until July 1, 1924. He was appointed Budget Director of the State of Iowa upon the 30th day of July, 1924, and occupied this important position at the time of his death which occurred on the 17th day of December, 1928.

Senator Hogue typified that virile pioneer stock that has made Iowa what it is today. He, and men and women like him, transformed the prairies of northwest Iowa from a wilderness into a prosperous and civilized commonwealth, and it is to men of his type and character that we of this generation owe the heritage that is ours today in this State. He was a man of candor, honesty and rugged character, and in his quiet way did much to mold the history of his community and of his State. His was a life of service and the State of Iowa is better for his having lived.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable Ernest Lincoln Hogue the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, a man of strong character and sterling worth, and the Senate of Iowa will tender by this resolution its sympathy to the widow and children who survive.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the journal of the Senate as an expression of the life and worth of the deceased, and an engrossed copy hereof be transmitted to the widow.

J. R. FRAILEY,

O. P. BENNETT,

J. G. MERRITT,

Committee.

Senate District 34