Representative Wilbert S. Fraley View All Years

Wilbert S. Fraley

Polk County

WILBERT SHERMAN FRALEY was born in Madison County, Iowa, January 19, 1867, and died in Des Moines June 15, 1931. Burial was in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Des Moines. He attended public school in Winterset and at an early age went to the Black Hills during the gold excitement there. He was a contractor and builder at Chadron, Nebraska, and in 1890 removed to Des Moines where for many years he followed the trade of plasterer, belonging to the plasterers’ union. He was a school director from 1894 to 1897, a member of the Des Moines City Council from 1902 to 1905, was a member of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth general assemblies, 1911 to 1914, and was chairman of the Exemption Board in Des Moines in 1918.

House District 37