Representative Thomas L. Hickenlooper View All Years

HONORABLE THOMAS L. HICKENLOOPER

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee apponted to prepare suitable resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public services of the late Honorable Thomas Hickenlooper of Monroe County, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:

Thomas Hickenlooper was born on a farm in the southern part of Monroe county, Iowa, July 23, 1876. He died at his home in Albia, Iowa, on March 24th, 1937.

As a boy Mr. Hickenlooper worked on his father’s farm and received a common school education. He was possessed of a receptive mind and was always studious, and his environment as a youth was that of the pioneers who years ago peopled southern Iowa.

He supplemented his common school education with a business course at the Ottumwa Commercial College. Having a keen mind and plenty of ambition, he early turned his thoughts to the profession of law. He studied law in the offices of outstanding lawyers of Albia for the required length of time and was admitted to the bar in 1899. He at once located in Albia and was associated with various law firms from time to time, but for several years preceding his death he conducted his practice alone. His fine presence and genial personality and solid common sense made him popular wherever he was known, and he was always called “Tom” with democratic familiarity. In 1901, he was married to Miss Nora Floyd at Kirksville, Missouri. To this marriage were born two sons, Marion of Albia, and Floyd of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Hickenlooper and the two sons survive.

In 1900, Mr. Hickenlooper was elected Clerk of the District Court of Monroe County, Iowa, and served four successive terms, and it goes without saying that he was one of the most competent clerks ever to fill that office.

In 1908, he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives from Monroe county and re-elected in 1910, and served in the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth General Assemblies of Iowa. He was considered one of the most substantial and reliable members of the House during those two sessions.

In his private life he was clean and honorable in the highest degree. His word was considered as good as his bond. As a public servant he was actuated only by a sense of duty to the trust that was committed to him.

Be It, Therefore, Resolved, That this House of Representatives of which he was a former member, deplore his passing and cherish his memory, and that this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that a copy thereof be mailed to his surviving widow, Mrs. Nora Hickenlooper of Albia, Iowa, and to each of his two sons, Marion Hickenlooper and Floyd Hickenlooper, Albia, Iowa.

W. G. WOOD,

OTTO FUELLING,

J. R. GARDNER,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.