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JOHN T. MOFFIT
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable John T. Moffit, begs leave to submit the following:
John T. Moffit, soldier, legislator and jurist, died at his home in Tipton, Iowa, November 11, 1947. He was born on a farm near Mechanicsville, Iowa, July 8, 1862, the son of Alexander Moffit; graduated from the academy at Cornell College in 1884, and from the law department, University of Michigan, in 1886. He then read law for one year in the office of E. B. Soper at Emmetsburg, Iowa, later locating in Tipton. Ten years later he became a partner in the Cedar Rapids law firm of Grimm, Trewin and Moffit; served as state senator from 1900 to 1904; Cedar County Attorney from 1905 to 1910, and district judge from 1915 to 1942; was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1892; enlisted in the Iowa National Guard in 1885 as a private and was mustered out as lieutenant colonel at the end of the Spanish-American war.
Mr. Moffit was an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity and of the Cornell college board of trustees since 1906; a Republican, Presbyterian and 32nd degree Mason of the Davenport Consistory. He was married to Winifred E. Hecht at Clarence, Iowa, on September 28, 1892, who died in 1936, and surviving her parents is a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Platner, 203 Kedzie Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-third General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable John T. Moffit, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
J. M. TUDOR,
O. H. HENNINGSEN,
FRANK C. BYERS,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.