Senator William Darius Jamieson View All Years

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William Darius Jamieson

Page County

Senator from the Seventh District, composed of the counties of Fremont and Page, was born of American parentage on his father's farm near Wapello, Louisa county, Iowa, November 9, 1873. When five years of age his parents moved to Wapello, where his father assumed the position of principal of the city schools; when nine years old he went into his father's printing office and with the exception of the years spent in school and college, and as a traveling salesman, has been actively engaged in newspaper work ever since. Received his education in the common schools and the State University. When nineteen years of age he became editor of The Ida Grove Pioneer, and while at Ida Grove was chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee for one year; later assumed control and management of The Gazette at Columbus Junction. In 1902 moved to Shenandoah, where he assumed control and management of The Shenandoah World, which paper he now owns and edits, together with The Democrat at Hamburg, in Fremont county, which he purchased in 1906. In November, 1902, was married to Miss Matie Vass of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Elected Senator in 1906. Elected Representative in Congress from the Eighth Congressional District in 1908. Resigned as State Senator March 3, 1909. A Democrat in politics.

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