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Senator Shirley Gillilland View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 12/6/1927
Birth County: Mills
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 30 (1904) - 34 (1911)
Home County: Mills
Shirley Gillilland
Mills County

SHIRLEY GILLILAND was born in Mills County, Iowa, December 14, 1856, and died in Glenwood December 6, 1927. He was graduated in Liberal Arts from the State University of Iowa in 1879, and from the Law Department in 1884, and soon thereafter entered on the practice of law at Glenwood. He was a member of the Board of Regents of the State University from 1891 to 1904. In 1892 he was elected county attorney of Mills County and was re-elected in 1894 and 1896, serving six years in that position. In 1903 he was elected senator and was re-elected in 1908, serving inclusively from the Thirtieth to the Thirty- fourth general assemblies. He was again elected county attorney in 1924 and in 1926, and was serving in that position at the time of his death. He was a Republican in politics.

Senate District 8
Committees
34th GA (1911)
Legislation Sponsored
34th GA (1911)