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Charles C. Helmer

Carroll County

CHARLES C. HELMER

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a memorial resolution commemorating the life and public service of the late Charles C. Helmer, begs leave to submit the following:

Charles C. Helmer, lawyer and legislator, died at Carroll, Iowa, October 27, 1946; born in Cedar county, Iowa, August 25, 1876.

Mr. Helmer obtained his common school education at Mechanicsville and Tipton; attended Iowa State College at Ames, and was in his senior year at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, when he enlisted as a private in Company F, Forty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served until the regiment was mustered out.

He entered the law department of the State University of Iowa and graduated in 1901, commencing the practice of law at Manning, Iowa; moved to Carroll in 1904 where he has since continued to practice law. He was elected county attorney in 1904 and for nearly eight years was city attorney of Carroll, and a member of the park commission since 1919. Mr. Helmer served in the Iowa Senate from Carroll, Green and Sac county district in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh General Assemblies.

On May 10, 1910, he was appointed captain and assigned to command Company D, 56th Infantry, Iowa National Guard. He resigned October 5,·1912. Served as an infantry captain in World War I.

He was married in 1905 to Jennie Willey of Keokuk, Iowa, who survives him, as do also one daughter and three sons. For forty years he was a civic leader in his community and active in Republican party circles.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-second General Assembly, That in the passing of Senator Helmer, Iowa has lost a distinguished citizen whose life symbolized integrity and honesty in affairs of the state.

Be It Further Resolved, That this resolution be spread upon the records of the Journal of the Senate of the Fifty-second General Assembly of Iowa, and that an enrolled copy be transmitted to his family.

RALPH E. BENSON,

ROBERT KEIR,

JAY C. COLBURN,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

Senate District 48