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FRANK S. SHANKLAND
MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Frank S. Shankland, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Frank S. Shankland, Legislator and District Judge, died March 3, 1943, in Des Moines, Iowa. He was born on a farm in Jasper county, Iowa, December 16, 1869. He attended high school in Monroe, Iowa, and Benton Harbor College in Michigan, and graduated from the Law School of Drake University in 1902. He taught school, practiced law, served as Polk County Representative in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth General Assemblies, was a member of the Des Moines School Board; then went upon the Polk county district bench in January 1927, and served until his death. He had as his hobby the raising of chickens. He was a Mason, a member of the Eastern Star and of the Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-first General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Frank S. Shankland, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
TED SLOANE,
CARL A. BURKMAN,
G. E. WHITEHEAD,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted,