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HONORABLE ULYSSES GRANT WHITNEY
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare a resolution commemorative to the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Ulysses Grant Whitney of Woodbury county, Iowa, former member of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth General Assemblies of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Honorable Ulysses Grant Whitney, reporter of the Supreme Court from 1914 to 1938, was born July 10, 1864, near Union, Hardin county, Iowa. Admitted to the bar in 1890, he began his practice of the law in Sioux City, Iowa, where he continued to reside until his death. In 1901 he became county attorney of Woodbury county, Iowa, holding that office for ten years, at the end of which he was elected to the Iowa legislature, serving as representative from Woodbury county in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth General Assemblies.
In 1914 he was appointed reporter of the Supreme Court. During the period of code revision from 1914 to 1924 he served as one of three code commissioners whose work of compilation and revision resulted in the Code of 1924—the first complete code in Iowa since 1897. As a part of this work the legislature had added to the duties of his office the position of Code Editor, in which capacity he was responsible for 1924, 1927, 1931, and 1935 editions of the Iowa Code. He died at his home in Sioux City, Iowa, March 6, 1938.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Ulysses Grant Whitney the state has lost an honored citizen, a man of high ideals in brotherly living and useful citizenship. The House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of the 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 directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
JOHN A. DAVENPORT,
MRS. FRANK A. ELLIOTT,
E. A. JOHNSON,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.