Senator John Alexander McKlveen View All Years

MR. PRESIDENT—Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public services of Honorable John A. McKlveen, beg leave to submit the following report:

JOHN ANDREW MCKLVEEN.

WHEREAS on July 16, 1916, Dr. J. A. McKlveen, a former member of this body during the Thirty-second General Assembly, passed away at his home in Chariton, Iowa, and

WHEREAS, his record as a man, a legislator, a practicing physician and as a public servant, was of the highest order, and

WHEREAS, it is only proper and fitting that we pause a moment to pay tribute to this excellent man, therefore be it

Resolved, By the Senate of the Thirty-seventh General Assembly of the State of Iowa, that in the death of Dr. J. A. McKlveen, our Commonwealth has suffered a distinct loss.

Dr. McKlveen was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on November 28, 1835. He came to Iowa in 1865 and located at Chariton, Iowa, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and continued until his death.

He served in several public positions including the following: President of the Board of Examining Surgeons for Pensions during Harrison’s administration and president of the Iowa State Electic Medical Society, member of the Iowa State Board of Health, Delegate from Iowa to the British Congress of Tuberculosis at London, and a member of the Senate of the Thirty-second General Assembly of Iowa.

In politics he was a staunch and true republican and was proud to be a member of the party of Abraham Lincoln but his friends were legion in both parties.

As a legislator he consistently stood for what he believed was right and supported all measures which were in the interest of the general public. On all moral issues he was a stalwart leader for the forces of right, order and decency and he enjoyed the utmost confidence and esteem of his colleagues.

Therefore Be It Resolved, That the life and character of Dr. J. A.·McKlveen, as a citizen, as a legislator and in every walk of life, was such as to commend itself to the youth of our state. From his shining example, let us take renewed courage and resolve that we will emulate his virtues.

Resolved further that these resolutions be spread upon the records of the senate and an engrossed copy thereof be sent to his brother, Samuel McKlveen, of Chariton, Iowa.

K. M. LECOMPTE,

J. M. WILSON,

JNO. R. PRICE,

The resolutions were adopted unanimously by a rising vote.