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HONORABLE CLIFFORD B. PAUL

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the Honorable Clifford B. Paul, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:

Clifford B. Paul, age 55, one of Eastern Iowa’s most prominent attorneys, was found dead in bed at his home at Anamosa, Iowa, on Monday, May 22, 1933. Although he had suffered from heart trouble for some time, he had not been seriously ill and his death was unexpected.

Mr. Paul served as county attorney of Jones county from 1925 to 1933 and in 1930 he was elected president of the Iowa Association of County Attorneys. He had the distinction of having served also as president of the State Association of County School Superintendents, having been a teacher and superintendent of Jones county schools previous to his law career. He was a member of the State House of Representatives from Jones county in the Thirty-second General Assembly.

Mr. Paul was born June 9, 1877, in Onslow, Iowa, the son of John and Isabella Wherry Paul, pioneers of Jones county. He was a graduate from Wyoming High School and Lennox College. After teaching at Coggon, he was elected superintendent of schools or Jones county, serving seven years.

After reading law in Judge B. H. Miller’s office here, he obtained his law degree at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal and Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternities. He was admitted to the bar in 1908 and became a partner of Judge Miller.

Surviving are his widow, an adopted son, James, student at Coe College, a sister, Mary, teacher in Cedar Rapids, and two brothers, Dr. John D. of Anamosa and Harold Paul of Fort Madison. He was a republican, a member of the Masonic organizations here and of the Shrine Temple at Cedar Rapids.

Funeral services were held at the Congregational Church on Wednesday at 2:00 p. m., in charge of Rev. D. M. Beggs. The services were most appropriate with the reading of two selected poems, at the opening and closing of the services, with prayer and the reading of the Twenty-third Psalms, and the obituary by the pastor. Two solos, “Some Day He'll Make It Plain,” and “Goin’ Home,” were rendered by Miss Lura Hanna.

The Masonic burial services, in charge of Jasper Ramsey of Cedar Rapids, were most impressively given at the grave at Riverside Cemetery where interment was made.

The large attendance at the funeral services, and the almost unlimited display of flowers were mute testimony to the love and esteem of many for the departed. Those who knew him, associated with him and worked with him are the better for having done so.

We shall all do well, those of us who go on from where Mr. Paul left off, if when our time arrives to take the journey he has taken, we can leave behind us the host of friends, the love, and the example of our departed.

In the passing of Clifford B. Paul, Anamosa and Jones county have lost one of their most upright and beloved citizens.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-fifth General Assembly in Extra Session, That in the passing of the Honorable Clifford B. Paul, the state has lost an honored and valuable citizen, and we bear unanimous witness to his upright life, his exemplary character and honorable service to his state, his broadmindedness, wisdom, keen sense of justice, fidelity and honesty. In the years of his service as an official, his conduct was exemplary in every respect. This is the record that we commend and honor today.

Be It Therefore Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the widow of the deceased.

THOMAS STIMPSON,

GEO. M. SCHLATTER,

E. A. JOHNSON,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, March 7, 1934.