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Permanent LinkRepresentative Albert F.N. Hambleton View All Years
ALBERT F. N. HAMBLETON was born at Forest Home, Mahaska County, Iowa, September 4, 1857, and died at South Pasadena, California, September 11, 1922. His parents were Levi and Mary Hall Hambleton. He attended common school, the preparatory department of Iowa College, Grinnell, for one year, Oskaloosa High School two years, and in 1873 entered Penn College. In 1874 he left school to enter his father’s store at Oskaloosa as a clerk. For a few years he was in the general mercantile business in Springville, Linn County, but returned to Oskaloosa in 1885 and engaged in the real estate and abstract business. In 1900-1902 he was a member of the Mahaska County Board of Supervisors. He was elected representative in 1903 and was re-elected in 1906, serving in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second assemblies, and was speaker pro tem of the Thirty-second. He was a member of Friends’ church, was a trustee of Iowa Yearly Meeting for years, and was a trustee of Penn College for twenty years, being secretary of the board for a time, and later, chairman. He was president of the Iowa State Sunday School Association in 1904-06. He removed to California in 1910 and engaged in real estate and insurance business. He there was a trustee of Whittier College, Whittier, California.